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-A cargo subcommand for displaying line counts of source code in projects, including a niave `unsafe` counter for Rust source files. This subcommand was originally based off and inspired by the project [tokei](https://github.com/aaronepower/tokei) by [Aaronepower](https://github.com/aaronepower)
+A cargo subcommand for displaying line counts of source code in projects, including a naive `unsafe` counter for Rust source files. This subcommand was originally based off and inspired by the project [tokei](https://github.com/aaronepower/tokei) by [Aaronepower](https://github.com/aaronepower)
 
 ## Demo