I use the free Perl script cloc. Sample usage:
phrogz$ cloc .
180 text files.
180 unique files.
77 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.56 T=1.0 s (104.0 files/s, 19619.0 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Javascript 29 1774 1338 10456
Ruby 61 577 185 4055
CSS 10 118 133 783
HTML 1 13 3 140
DOS Batch 2 6 0 19
Bourne Shell 1 4 0 15
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SUM: 104 2492 1659 15468
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