hist
Commandline tool for plotting frequency ranked histograms of TSV/CSV data.
Installation
$ cargo install hist-cli
export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
Usage
```
hist 0.4.2
Plots histogram of input
USAGE:
hist [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [input]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-n, --nooutput do not save a PNG plot to a file
-t, --textplot also plot a textplot to STDOUT
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-T, --Title
optional title above the plot [default: Counts distribution]
-g, --geometry <geometry> the x and y size of the plot [default: 1280x960]
-o, --output <output> file to save PNG plot to [default: histogram.png]
-s, --save <save> save counts data to file as TSV, use - for STDOUT
--xdesc <xdesc> x-axis label [default: Rank]
--ydesc <ydesc> y-axis label [default: Counts]</p>
<p>ARGS:
<input> optional file with on entry per line [default: STDIN]
```</p>
<p>Just piping from stdin:
```
$ cut -f 1 data.tsv | hist
$ open histogram.png # on MacOS, on Linux maybe display or eog
$ cut -f 1 data.tsv > data.tsv.1; hist data.tsv.1 -o histogram2.png
$ echo a3 b2 b2 a3 a3 c4 c4 c4 c4 | tr ' ' '\n' | hist -n -t</p>
<h1>not plot at all, just replace: sort | uniq -c | sort -n</h1>
<p>$ echo a3 b2 b2 a3 a3 c4 c4 c4 c4 | tr ' ' '\n' | hist -n -s -
2 b2
3 a3
4 c4
```</p>
<p><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahcm/hist-cli/main/doc/histogram.png" alt="histogram" /></p>
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