• bash,  Mac OS X,  Mac Security

    Super-Simple Bash Graphs

    The sparkr gem is installed by default in macOS. To use it to produce simple graphs, simply run it followed by a series of integers: sparkr 12 110 250 110 12 The result would be as follows: This is useful for a quick and dirty visualization in scripts. For example, a series of 5, 10, 200 numbers that don’t have that much range where you’re just looking for a simple pattern. Like number of lines in logs, etc. Obviously, you can pay a lot of money for graphing frameworks and very fancy-schmancy tools. This is really just for me in small scripts.  Note: sparkr isn’t installed on all Mac systems.…