lingth

A simple line-length checker

Features

• Handles multiple files and redirected input
• Flexible output options
• Handles tabs and unicode
• Includes command-line wrapper and core library function

Installation

1. Simply copy lingth and lingth.php to a directory — any directory, but the same one.

2. Run by specifying full path to lingth command, adding its directory to your PATH environment variable, or symlinking from a directory already in PATH

Usage

lingth [-chHlnp] [-m num] [-t num] [file ...]
       [--help]

• -c Don't show content
• -h Don't show filenames
• -H Show filenames
• -l Don't show length
• -L Show length
• -m num Set length limit
• -n Don't show line numbers
• -N Show line numbers
• -p Don't replace tabs with spaces
• -P Replace tabs with spaces
• -t num Set tab width in spaces
• file ... The pathnames of files to be scanned for long lines. If no file arguments are specified, the standard input is used.
• --help Display this help and exit

Examples

lingth *.php

lingth -m22 /usr/share/dict/words

echo foo | lingth -hln -m 2

echo '😊😊' | lingth -m1