From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The freq command
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:54:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490710070954t56ce93ecl98f06839890de1aa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab4cf6420710052337x1549a1c3m5d7b1d047b8c1bd9@mail.gmail.com>
freq is a ken original, an old program that sat in his personal bin
for a long time.
i don't remember what caused it to become public.
the -r option was a late addition.
it's an odd tool in the old unix tradition. its output is rarely the
final answer
but somehow encodes what you're looking for: this file is ascii; this file is
latin-1; there are no tabs in this file.
i don't think most people even know about it. it's not a central
application; just
a reminder of the halcyon days of fun little tools.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-07 16:54 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-06 6:37 underspecified
2007-10-07 16:54 ` Rob Pike [this message]
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