---
name: "lu-comment-extractor"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "licenseutils"
version: "0.0.9-8"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lu-comment-extractor"
---

# lu-comment-extractor(1)

extract comments from source code files

## NAME

lu-comment-extractor - extract comments from source code files

## SYNOPSIS

**lu-comment-extractor** \[*OPTION*\]... *FILE*

## DESCRIPTION

Show the topmost comments of source files (using GNU Source Highlight.)

- **-f**, **--full**

  instead of showing topmost comments, show them all

- **-s**, **--style** NAME

  parse comments in the style of NAME

- **--stats**

  also show starting and ending byte positions

**-O**, **--output** FILE dump comments to FILE instead of stdout

- **-h**, **--help**

  display this help and exit

- **--version**

  display version information and exit

Style NAME can be one of "c, c++, javascript, shell, scheme, texinfo, latex, m4, haskell, groff, gettext, fortran, pascal".  "c" is the default.

**--stats** produces a terminating line showing the source row, source column, along with the destination row, destination column of the detected comments.

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to \<http://sv.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=licenseutils\>.