rare

Processes and summarizes data on-the-fly without waiting for full input, enabling immediate insights from streaming logs with tail-like following (-f).

Designed for speed with multi-threaded reading, parsing, and aggregation, as evidenced by benchmarks comparing favorably to grep and awk.

Supports histograms, bar graphs, tables, heatmaps, and sparklines directly in the terminal, eliminating the need for external graphing tools.

Offers both regex and dissect tokenizers, with gzip decompression and file glob recursion, adapting to various text sources like logs and CSV.