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