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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 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 people would use this.

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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

(The above pipeline counts the lines of C code in files in the src directory.)

EDIT: Actually, the script can pretty easily support alternative delimiters. Let's say you wanted "," as a delimiter. Instead of writing:

    barchart data

Just write:

    sed 's/,/ /' data | barchart

(This sed invocation will only replace the first comma, so it won't mess with your labels.)

Have you tried the `tokei` tool for counting lines of code? It can also output in machine-readable formats IIRC.

I just tried it at your suggestion. I do like the JSON output.

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