Count Characters

[flofriday]

It would be nice if there was an option to count the characters instead of just the lines.

[AlDanial]

It's a good idea, esp since some C/C++ styles call for a single brace character on a line by itself which becomes an exaggeration to call that a line of code. However the capability doesn't fit well with the existing cloc architecture. I'll leave this issue open but do not foresee an imminent solution.

[rxliuli]

I finally used the unix command to combine

$ find books/ -name '*.md' | xargs wc -m | tail -l | awk '/total/{print $1}'

or

$ find books/ -name '*.md' -exec wc -m {} + |  awk '/total/{print $1}'

ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35559648/how-can-i-count-the-number-of-words-in-a-directory-recursively