Re: [9fans] The freq command

[underspecified <underspecified@gmail.com>]

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Greetings,

Thank you for the informative reply.

Freq is a nice little program. More people should know about it.

Hoping for a return of the halcyon days of fun little tools,

--underspecified

On 10/8/07, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

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