barchart
Dev tools
command-line charting
SHOW HN2021
86points
23comments
#602of 2,533 in 2021
Top 24%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.45.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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Simple, works well, nice work
From 4 comments
sh for arg parsing and configuration detection (cols). awk for the actual work. No fluff. Straight to the point. Just Works. Congrats to the author.
xcambar on HN"The script should work with any POSIX shell." Nice work!
1vuio0pswjnm7 on HNNice and Supercool!
designerdonna22 on HNThis is really useful :)
AliBoukeroui on HN
Requests
Accept input from a pipe and specify a delimiter
From 1 comment
Hi 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…
version_five on HN
Real-time rendering of streaming data
From 1 comment
Anyway we could use this with realtime rendering? For eg: I pipe data from top command to this script to see graphs/charts change it dynamically?
the_arun on HN
Alternatives named
gnuplot dumb terminal output
From 1 comment
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…
version_five on HN
feedgnuplot
From 1 comment
Nice! There is also https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
ducktective on HN
UnicodePlots.jl
From 1 comment
I would rather use this: https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl along with a little scripting.
dunefox on HN
plotext
From 1 comment
nice 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,…
kgarten on HN
htop
From 1 comment
Slightly relevant: The program "htop" displays CPU usage with bars on the command line. https://htop.dev/
johndough on HN