psort

Initially my original perl script I wrote ages ago that not only combines the commands: | sort | uniq -c | sort -n into one script, but includes percentages (the thing I initially wrote it to get) and aligns columns and such.

e.g.

❯ find Movies -type f -name \*.mp4 -o -name \*.m4v | awk -F\. '{print $NF}' | ./psort
 2.8649%    42 mp4
97.1351%  1424 m4v
  Total:  1466

Later I kept on improving with some options that came in handy.

Usage / Help

❯ ./psort --help
Usage: ./psort [--csv] [--csvall] [--help]
    --csv       : Do output as csv rather than formatted for a human to read
    --csvall    : Do output as csv replacing any/all whitespaces with commas
    --decimal   : Specify how many decimal places to compute (default 4)
    --numeric   : If the data being fed to psort is numeric this flag will sort the
                :  output by that data instead of by counts
    --help      : Output this help info

Synopsis: Takes input and essentially does the equivalent of `sort | uniq -c | sort -n` 
with added percentages and total info, default output is nicely formatted for humans to read.

Ports

Playing with Claude, I already ported to C to see how it would do. Actually worked pretty well out of the box. Probably will play with other language ports as a way to get some experience.