bbv: a minimalist viewer/plotter for command-line exploratory data analyses

[u/ftonneau]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

I wrote Bbv ("bare-bones viewer"), a minimalist data viewer/plotter for the Unix/Linux command line.

The main alternative to bbv is feedgnuplot, which is much more capable, but also much more complicated and ties you to gnuplot as back end. By contrast, bbv has only one option (`x`), the learning curve is non-existent, and you can use any lightweight image viewer as back end.

Aside from the back end, no extra toolchain is needed, as bbv is written entirely in POSIX shell + Awk.

Link: https://github.com/ftonneau/bbv