Re: Graphing a list of values

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

you have a max_mb per maxcols too ?

i wanted to give it a try but the max_mb is missing, for scaling right

.. ?

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 06:09 hancooper via <help-bash@gnu.org> wrote:

> I have an array composed of the following elements and want to generate a
> graph of the values, distributed over a number of columns (ncols=80)
>
> ```
> + 3665.64686592 MB
> + 1261.64520768 MB
> + 96.35131584 MB
> + 61.17171840 MB
> + 99.81615072 MB
> + 541.22517696 MB
> + 1067.42695488 MB
> + 462.11600448 MB
> + 970.72017120 MB
> + 1539.70699584 MB
> + 2207.06856864 MB
> + 2522.07166848 MB
> + 645.12725472 MB
> + 104.71848192 MB
> + 70.59747552 MB
> + 44.05066848 MB
> ```
>
> For instance
>
> ```
> + 10 MB
> + 50 MB
> + 100 MB
> ```
>
> Here would be the result with `ncols=10`
>
> ```
> *
> *****
> **********
> ```
>
> Have started with the following, but have to modify to take values from an
> array. Using `awk` seems as the better way to do this.
>
> ```
> oaggr=("+ 659.28737472 MB" "+ 316.94840736 MB" "+ 163.69489344 MB")
> awk '{$2=sprintf("%-*s", $2, ""); gsub(" ", "=", $2); \
> printf("%-10s%s\n", $1, $2)}' file
> ```