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Unixify

hugooliveirad opened this issue · comments

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Great module @rafaelrinaldi!

One useful feature would be to "unixify" the output. I think npm-downloads could be very similar to the wc utility.

A excerpt from the wc manpage:

The following options are available:

     -c      The number of bytes in each input file is written to the standard output.  This will cancel out any prior usage of the -m option.

     -l      The number of lines in each input file is written to the standard output.

     -m      The number of characters in each input file is written to the standard output.  If the current locale does not support multibyte
             characters, this is equivalent to the -c option.  This will cancel out any prior usage of the -c option.

     -w      The number of words in each input file is written to the standard output.

npm-downloads could come with:

  • -d to display the number of downloads on npm from last day
  • -w to display the number of downloads on npm from last week
  • -m to display the number of downloads on npm from last month

And also simplify the output, removing the spinner, tabulation and number formatting.

I see this being used to create statistical utilities and more with ease.

commented

@hugobessaa Hey Hugo, thanks for jumping in with feedback!

Yeah, I thought about that when I was writing it for the first time but I decided it was a YAGN back then. It might be a good addition indeed.

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@hugobessaa Will close this issue as I think the current behavior already does what I expected it to do. Feel free to give it a shot though 😉