@kszongic/tally-cli

Count occurrences of each line from stdin — like sort | uniq -c but cross-platform, zero dependencies, and sorted by frequency.

Install

npm i -g @kszongic/tally-cli

Usage

# Count word frequency
echo -e "apple\nbanana\napple\napple\nbanana\ncherry" | tally
# 3  apple
# 2  banana
# 1  cherry

# Top 2 most frequent
cat access.log | tally --top 2

# Sort alphabetically
cat words.txt | tally --name

# Ascending order
cat data.txt | tally --asc

# Custom delimiter
cat items.txt | tally -d ","

Options

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | -a, --asc | Sort ascending instead of descending | | -n, --name | Sort alphabetically by line text | | -t, --top N | Show only the top N entries | | -d, --delimiter | Delimiter between count and text (default: tab) | | -h, --help | Show help | | -v, --version | Show version |

Real-world examples

# Most common HTTP status codes
awk '{print $9}' access.log | tally --top 5

# Most used shell commands
history | awk '{print $2}' | tally --top 10

# Count file extensions in a directory
find . -type f | sed 's/.*\.//' | tally

License

MIT © 2026 kszongic