X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/barcat.git/blobdiff_plain/9eb6da139e4958a8f31c03e62073f1a0f6e20898..28a07c68bc2845abab5506c7a088ff843eaba00f:/barcat

diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index 0f0cfb8..bae7989 100755
--- 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,