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Old 06-04-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shamrock View Post
Code:
awk '{
    x+=$2
    if(!NR%5) {
      printf("avg of lines %d-%d is %.1f\n", NR-4, NR, x/5)
      x=0
    }
}' file
Thank you....let me try the script