plot_joblog 1.0.1

Produce a time chart of the jobs ran by GNU parallel

Plotting time tables for jobs ran by GNU Parallel
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The program ``print_joblog`` produces a textual representation of the
time required by a sequence of jobs ran by GNU parallel
(http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/).

To use it, call GNU Parallel with the ``--joblog`` option::

$ parallel --joblog log.txt ...[all the other parameters]...

After the file ``log.txt`` has been created, run ``plot_joblog`` on it::

$ plot_joblog log.txt

(You do not have to wait till ``parallel`` has exited to run
``plot_joblog``.)


Installing the program
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Move in the source directory and run the following command::

$ python3 setup.py install


Example
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Here is an example of the output::

$ plot_joblog -w 20 joblog_example.txt
1: |#### |
2: |####################|
3: |######## |
4: |### |
5: | ################ |
6: | ########### |
$

Output can be customized by means of the following parameters:
- ``--width`` specifies the overall width of each bar, in characters.
- ``--space`` allows to set up the character used to fill the
background of the bar.
- ``--fill`` allows to specify the character to be used to fill the
bars.

A nice choice for UTF-8 terminals is to use the character \u2588 (``█``)
for filling the bars::

$ plot_joblog -w 20 --fill='█' joblog_example.txt
1: |████ |
2: |████████████████████|
3: |████████ |
4: |███ |
5: | ████████████████ |
6: | ███████████ |
$

Run ``plot_joblog --help`` to see all the options provided by the
program.


License
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This program is released under the MIT license.