From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 14:10:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: explain options introduced in examples
X-Git-Tag: v1.05~23
X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/barcat.git/commitdiff_plain/2bf1b7f24e3dfa3ceb523eb08003d866d50fed0e

explain options introduced in examples
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diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index a5ea9f3..b6f60ef 100755
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -315,15 +315,15 @@ Draw a sine wave:
 
     seq 30 | awk '{print sin($1/10)}' | barcat
 
-Compare file sizes:
+Compare file sizes (with human-readable numbers):
 
-    du -d0 -m * | barcat
+    du -d0 -b * | barcat -H
 
-Memory usage of user processes:
+Memory usage of user processes with long names truncated:
 
     ps xo %mem,pid,cmd | barcat -l40
 
-Monitor network latency:
+Monitor network latency from prefixed results:
 
     ping google.com | barcat -f'time=\K' -t
 
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ Number of HTTP requests per day:
 
     cat log/access.log | cut -d\  -f4 | cut -d: -f1 | uniq -c | barcat
 
-Any kind of database query with leading counts:
+Any kind of database query with counts, preserving returned alignment:
 
     echo 'SELECT count(*),schemaname FROM pg_tables GROUP BY 2' |
     psql -t | barcat -u