Package: moreutils Version: 0.24 Severity: wishlist How about a utility to sample every Nth line of stdin to stdout? This could be useful for humans monitoring the real-time output of noisy programs like tshark or as part of a pipeline prior to an expensive filter. Something like:
$ cat samp.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv){
if(argc > 1){
int samp = atoi(argv[1]);
int c = 0;
char *line = NULL;
size_t len = 0;
while(getline(&line, &len, stdin) != -1){
if(c % samp == 0) fputs(line, stdout);
++c;
}
if(line) free(line);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
$
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