diff --git a/count_lines.sh b/count_lines.sh
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+#! /bin/bash
+
+find . -name \*.html -print0 | xargs -0 egrep  -vc "#|^\s*$"  | grep -v ":0$" | grep -v ".venv" | awk -F ":" '{ sum +=$2; print $2, $1; } END {print sum}'| sort -n > lines-of-templates.txt
+
+find . -name \*.py -print0 | xargs -0 egrep  -vc "#|^\s*$"  | grep -v ":0$" | grep -v ".venv" | grep -v "/migrations/" |grep -v "troggle-inspectdb.py"| awk -F ":" '{ sum +=$2; print $2, $1; } END {print sum}'| sort -n > lines-of-python.txt
+echo `tail -1 lines-of-python.txt`   non-comment lines of python. 
+echo `tail -1 lines-of-templates.txt`   non-comment lines of HTML templates.