hist-cli 0.4.0

Commandline tool for plotting frequency ranked histograms of TSV/CSV data
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# hist
Commandline tool for plotting frequency ranked histograms of TSV/CSV data.
## Installation
```
$ cargo install hist-cli
```

## Usage
```
$ hist --help
hist 0.4.0
Plots histogram of input

USAGE:
    hist [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [input]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help        Prints help information
    -n, --nooutput    do not save a PNG plot to a file
    -t, --textplot    also plot a textplot to STDOUT
    -V, --version     Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -T, --Title <Title>      optional title above the plot [default: Counts distribution]
    -o, --output <output>    file to save PNG plot to [default: histogram.png]
    -s, --save <save>        save counts data to file as TSV, use - for STDOUT
    -s, --size <size>        the x and y pixel sizes of the output file [default: 1280x960]
        --xdesc <xdesc>      x-axis label [default: Rank]
        --ydesc <ydesc>      y-axis label [default: Counts]

ARGS:
    <input>    optional file with on entry per line [default: STDIN]
```

Just piping from stdin:
```
$ hist < data.tsv
$ open histogram.png # on MacOS, on Linux maybe display or eog
```


![histogram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahcm/hist-cli/main/doc/histogram.png)