Tim Bray blogged about topfew,
his Go implementation of a tool to replace the
awk '{print $1}' access_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -12 pipeline.
This is a reimplementation of that tool in idiomatic stable Rust.
The initial Rust version was 2.9x faster than Tim's Go implementation; current main appears to be around 6.7x faster thanks to some additional optimizations. The Rust version currently has slightly fewer non-test SLOC than the Go version. Thanks to Thomas Andreas Jung for contributing substantial performance improvements.
Usage: tf [OPTIONS] --fields <FIELDS> <FILE>
Arguments:
<FILE> File to search
Options:
-f, --fields <FIELDS> Fields to use as part of the line's key
-n, --num <NUM> Top number of matches to show [default: 10]
-e, --regex <REGEX> Regular expression used to split lines into fields [default: "[ \\t]"]
-h, --help Print help
If you have the Rust toolchain installed, you can install it with cargo install topfew.