epsylonix / nmax

a ruby script that reads <n> top numbers from stdin and prints them to stdout

#nmax

Home: https://github.com/epsylonix/nmax

Bugs: https://github.com/epsylonix/nmax/issues

#Description nmax is a simple program that takes in text data from the standart input and outputs N top numbers found in the text to the standart output.

#Installation git clone https://github.com/epsylonix/nmax.git cd nmax gem build nmax.gemspec gem install nmax-0.0.1.gem

#Usage: cat sample_data_40GB.txt | nmax N

##Notes:

• Input data is expected to be in ASCII or UTF-8 encoding.
• Output is sorted in ascending order
• Leading zeros are inored (00058 is converted to 58)
• Duplicate numbers are not removed

#License nmax is released under the MIT License.