> What would be the correct syntax to use in determining how many lines of code > there is in the current 2.6.0b2 tarball?
If you don't have sloccount: Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 121,066 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 30.78 (369.30) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 1.97 (23.63) (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 15.63 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 4,157,334 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40). SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPL. SLOCCount comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions as specified by the GNU GPL license; see the documentation for details. Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'." -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com