tali

tali is a small CLI tool for live frequency tallies on a stream of lines.

Think:

any | sort | uniq -c

…but updated live as stdin comes in.

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Installation

go install github.com/zcag/tali@latest

Make sure $GOPATH/bin (or $GOBIN) is in your PATH.

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Features

• Live tally of stdin lines
• Adapts automatically to terminal height
• Shows only what fits on screen
• Aggregates hidden entries as <others>
• When the stream stops (EOF / Ctrl-C), tali prints the full, final tally.

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Usage

Basic:

some_stream | tali

See most outbound connection by ip:

ss -tun \
  | awk 'NR>1 {print $5}' \
  | sed 's/:.*//' \
  | tali

See file types counted live:

find ~ -type f -name '*.*' 2>/dev/null \
  | sed 's/.*\.//' \
  | tr A-Z a-z \
  | tali

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Output semantics

• Live view

  • Small counts at the top
  • Large counts sink to the bottom
  • Hidden entries are grouped as <others>

• Final output (on EOF / Ctrl-C)

  • Full list
  • Sorted the same way (small → large)
  • Suitable for piping or saving

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Todo

• Detect non-TTY output and skip live redraw
• Sort options
• Variable sample frequency
• Limit uniq keys to keep