Counts things and graphs them. Requires a mark (defaults to a blank line) to let it know a set of output is done.
To only graph once, such as to find files by extension:
$ (find . -type f -name "?*.*" ; echo) | awk -F'[.]' -f graph.awk
$ (find . -type f -name "?*.*" ; echo) | graph.awk -F'[.]'
To monitor output, you can use something like
$ (while : ; do find . -type f -name "?*.*" ; echo; sleep 5; done) | awk -F'[.]' -f graph.awk
$ (while : ; do find . -type f -name "?*.*" ; echo; sleep 5; done) | graph.awk -F'[.]'
It graphs based on the last "field" on each input line, so you can change the field-delimiter using the -F option for awk.
If new items appear, they get added at the bottom as they are encountered which means that the graph above will remain in stable order.
The label area will automatically adjust/increase to accommodate longer labels as they appear in the input stream.
NB: The entire graph will be rescaled on each iteration through to accommodate increases in data-size or label length.