unspecified field counts entire lines

[barcat.git] / barcat

diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index 0f0cfb8d100aefe0a12665c8ffbd493d605b0050..bae7989b29dff616924f8b105073f085007f7651 100755 (executable)
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ $opt{'graph-format'} //= '-';
 $opt{trim}   *= $opt{width} / 100 if $opt{trimpct};
 $opt{units}   = [split //, ' kMGTPEZYRQqryzafpn'.($opt{ascii} ? 'u' : 'μ').'m']
        if $opt{'human-readable'};
-$opt{anchor} //= qr/\A/;
 $opt{'value-length'} = 4 if $opt{units};
 $opt{'value-length'} = 1 if $opt{unmodified};
 $opt{'signal-stat'} //= exists $SIG{INFO} ? 'INFO' : 'QUIT';
@@ -211,13 +210,15 @@ if (defined $opt{interval}) {
 }
 
 my $float = qr<[0-9]* [.]? [0-9]+ (?: e[+-]?[0-9]+ )?>; # positive numberish
-my $valmatch = qr< $opt{anchor} ( \h* -? $float |) >;
+my $valmatch = $opt{anchor} // qr/\A/;
+$valmatch .= !$opt{count} ? qr/( \h* -? $float |)/ :
+       $opt{anchor} ? qr/(\S*)/ : qr/(.*)/;
+
 while (defined ($_ = $opt{input} ? shift @{ $opt{input} } : readline)) {
        s/\r?\n\z//;
        my $valnum;
        if ($opt{count}) {
-               ($valnum) = m/$opt{anchor} (\S*)/;
-               $valnum //= '';
+               $valnum = m/$valmatch/ && $1;
                $uniq{$valnum}++ and next;
                push @values, $valnum;
                s/\A/\n /;
@@ -535,9 +536,13 @@ or the I<NO_COLOR> environment variable.
 =item B<-c>, B<--count>
 
 Omit repetitions and count the number of occurrences.
-Similar to piping input to C<sort | uniq -c>
+Similar to piping input through C<sort | uniq -c>
 but keeping the order of first appearances.
 
+Lines are omitted if they (or a specified field) are identical,
+and the amount of matches is prepended and used as values
+for bars and subsequent statistics.
+
 =item B<-f>, B<--field>=([B<+>]I<number> | I<regexp>)
 
 Compare values after a given number of whitespace separators,