Graphing a list of values

[hancooper]

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On Saturday, September 18, 2021 5:46 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev 
<fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

> i used in the awk post i did the max of seen in data yes

Somehow I got to pass the second field of each element in the array. Perhaps 
sed can help here.

> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 07:46 hancooper <hancooper@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Saturday, September 18, 2021 5:26 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev 
>> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> you have a max_mb per maxcols too ?
>>>
>>> i wanted to give it a try but the max_mb is missing, for scaling right
>>>
>>> .. ?
>>
>> I can set a maximum (7200 is a sensible value), or use the maximum in the 
>> array.
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 06:09 hancooper via help-bash@gnu.org wrote:
>>>
>>> > I have an array composed of the following elements and want to generate a
>>> > graph of the values, distributed over a number of columns (ncols=80)
>>> >
>>> > + 3665.64686592 MB
>>> > + 1261.64520768 MB
>>> > + 96.35131584 MB
>>> > + 61.17171840 MB
>>> > + 99.81615072 MB
>>> > + 541.22517696 MB
>>> > + 1067.42695488 MB
>>> > + 462.11600448 MB
>>> > + 970.72017120 MB
>>> > + 1539.70699584 MB
>>> > + 2207.06856864 MB
>>> > + 2522.07166848 MB
>>> > + 645.12725472 MB
>>> > + 104.71848192 MB
>>> > + 70.59747552 MB
>>> > + 44.05066848 MB
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > For instance
>>> >
>>> > + 10 MB
>>> > + 50 MB
>>> > + 100 MB
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Here would be the result with `ncols=10`
>>> >
>>> > *
>>> > *****
>>> > **********
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Have started with the following, but have to modify to take values from an
>>> > array. Using `awk` seems as the better way to do this.
>>> >
>>> > oaggr=("+ 659.28737472 MB" "+ 316.94840736 MB" "+ 163.69489344 MB")
>>> > awk '{$2=sprintf("%-*s", $2, ""); gsub(" ", "=", $2); \\
>>> > printf("%-10s%s\\n", $1, $2)}' file
>>> >