diff --git a/git_stats.sh b/git_stats.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..01348a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git_stats.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+function git_history {
+  git log $filename | grep "Date: "
+}
+
+function first_commit {
+  git_history | tail -1
+}
+
+function last_commit {
+  git_history | head -1
+}
+
+function number_of_commits {
+  git_history | wc -l
+}
+ 
+function legible_output {
+  # $2:   filename
+  # $1:   lines of code
+  # $3:   number of commits
+  # $6:   month (first)
+  # $7:   date (first)
+  # $9:   year (first)
+  # $13:  month (last)
+  # $14:  date (last)
+  # $16:  year (last)
+  awk '{print $2 "," $1 "," $3 "," $6 " " $7 " " $9 "," $13 " " $14 " " $16}'
+}
+
+function csv_lines_for {
+  for filename in $(find . -iname "*.$1"); do
+    echo "`wc -l $filename` `number_of_commits` `first_commit` `last_commit`" |
+    legible_output |
+    xargs echo
+  done
+}
+
+function create_csv {
+  echo "filename,lines of code,number of commits,date of first commit,date of last commit"
+
+  for argument in "$@"
+  do
+    csv_lines_for $argument
+  done
+}
+
+cd $1
+create_csv $@
+cd -
+