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08-31-2007

baghera

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Join Date: Aug 2007

Posts: 23

I solved the problem:

Code:

i="1"
j=$2

while [ "$j" -gt  0 ]
  do
  echo "$data" | awk -v k=$i '{sum+=$k} END {print sum/NR}'
  i=$[$i+1]
  j=$[$j-1]
done

This works fine for me. And to get the columns I just use:

Code:

data='cat myList | xargs -n $2'