Plot

A minimalist CLI tool to plot data to the terminal.

• Data: From CSV files or command line arguments.
• Charts: Bar and Column charts.

Installation

1. Download the latest release for your OS.
2. Move the binary to a directory in your PATH e.g. mv plot-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/plot (May need sudo)
3. Make the binary executable e.g. chmod +x /usr/local/bin/plot
4. Adding plot to the list of allowed binaries e.g. xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /usr/local/bin/plot

MacOS Install

curl -L -o plot https://github.com/archiewood/plot/releases/download/v0.0.2/plot-darwin-amd64
mv plot /usr/local/bin/
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/plot
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /usr/local/bin/plot

Usage

plot [-t title] [-c chartType] file.csv
plot [-t title] [-c chartType] [labels ,]  values

Bar Chart from CSV

plot test/two_col_header.csv

Bar Chart with Title and Labels

plot -t "Programming Languages" go python r c++ , 84 950 923 27

Column Chart

plot -c column test/two_col_header.csv

Credits

This tool is heavily inspired by YouPlot