As someone else pointed out, this definitely gets points for using sh/awk.
Just wanted to mention that gnuplot also has a "dumb" output option that will generate ascii plots in the terminal. Thay is usually my go-to for this use case.
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#12As someone else pointed out, this definitely gets points for using sh/awk. Just wanted to mention that gnuplot also has a "dumb" output option that will generate ascii plots in the terminal. Thay is usually my go-to for this use case.
+1 gnuplot is awesome
But this showHN project pretty cool too
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#13Hi jwmhjwmh - thanks for posting this. I just wanted to add, for me, two important features of a utility like this are 1. to accept input from a pipe, and 2. to specify a delimiter. My usual use would be
data source | processing | plot
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#14Hi jwmhjwmh - thanks for posting this. I just wanted to add, for me, two important features of a utility like this are 1. to accept input from a pipe, and 2. to specify a delimiter. My usual use would be data source | processing | plot E.g. a csv, cut or awk, then either print the data or plot. The features I suggested make this workflow easier, but I don't know how common that is. I'd be interested to know how other…
The script does accept input from a pipe, just as Awk does. Specifying a delimiter seems like it should be doable.
To answer your question, I mainly use this for counting lines of code:
cloc --by-file --csv src/ | awk -F, '/^C/{print$5,$2}' | barchart | less
EDIT: Actually, the script can pretty easily support alternative delimiters. Let's say you wanted "," as a delimiter. Instead of writing:
barchart data
sed 's/,/ /' data | barchart
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#15This is really useful :)
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#16As an intermediate Linux user I’ve found shell to be both wondrously powerful as well as frustratingly difficult to write.
You can do so much. And the model of chaining known, stable programs together is elegant.
But it feels hard to write and maintain good code with. Even in this barchart program there’s a string of awk within this code.
So it got me wondering: is there any high quality text editor or IDE support for shell scripts? Perhaps one that even understands or looks at the inputs and outputs to other programs and understands hen you’re writing awk or sed or whatnot inside it?
And what about the concept of a higher level ergonomic language that compiles to a shell script?
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#17As an intermediate Linux user I’ve found shell to be both wondrously powerful as well as frustratingly difficult to write. You can do so much. And the model of chaining known, stable programs together is elegant. But it feels hard to write and maintain good code with. Even in this barchart program there’s a string of awk within this code. So it got me wondering: is there any high quality text editor or IDE support fo…
There exist more modern shells like Fish Shell and Oil Shell. I haven't used them, but they're probably nicer to use than POSIX shell. I'm sure they have pipes and stuff too.
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#18As an intermediate Linux user I’ve found shell to be both wondrously powerful as well as frustratingly difficult to write. You can do so much. And the model of chaining known, stable programs together is elegant. But it feels hard to write and maintain good code with. Even in this barchart program there’s a string of awk within this code. So it got me wondering: is there any high quality text editor or IDE support fo…
There is a LSP for shell: shellcheck
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#19nice little project :)
on a tangent I was playing with https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext for a bit (especially on a data analysis server connected over ssh it's quite useful, if you don't have the bandwidth to start a jupyter notebook).
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#20As an intermediate Linux user I’ve found shell to be both wondrously powerful as well as frustratingly difficult to write. You can do so much. And the model of chaining known, stable programs together is elegant. But it feels hard to write and maintain good code with. Even in this barchart program there’s a string of awk within this code. So it got me wondering: is there any high quality text editor or IDE support fo…
There exist more modern shells like Fish Shell and Oil Shell. I haven't used them, but they're probably nicer to use than POSIX shell. I'm sure they have pipes and stuff too.
I use Fish, and can confirm that it has pipes, along with string substitution, redirection (>, >>, 2>, etc.), functions, etc.
The difference is that fish's keywords are closer to programming languages' (all blocks end with `end`, no esac nor fi), fish kind of looks like Ruby.