Hi,

I got a lot of files looking like this:
All together there are ard 1'000'000 lines in each of the ard 100 files.
I want to build the average for every line, and write the result to a new file.
The averaging should start at a specific line, here for example at line 380'000.

Help is much appreciated...

chillmaster

PS: This should be done for data files of CFD calculations, exactly to average a transient calculation and read it with postprocessor again.
So the first (here ard 380'000) lines are the coordinates of the field points following hereafter...

Do you mean average accross hundreds of files - ie., line 474000 average from files 1...200? This would mean each file has the same number of lines, which based on your explanation does not seem to be the case.

Hi jim,

yep, you are rite.
Maybe i wrote a little confused, English isnt my mother tongue...

Anyway, rite now I got 100 files each with 1'050'000 rows, just one column.
Every file is a specific point of time.
I want an average for each line over all the 100 files (Line 1 for all 100 files, Line 2 ...).
However, I need to start averaging at a specific line, something ard 380'000.
These first 380'000 rows are coordinate points.

I think first I need to join the files, that I get one file with 1'050'000 rows and 100 columns. I tried:
just for two files, but it isnt working.
It seems that there is a limit for the lenght of the files...

pressure 2
velocity 23
. 345
. .
. .
2 .
3 pressure
6 .
5 .
64 .
64
3
6

Pressure is supposed to be the first row...


Thank you for your help

Could you (not in proper syntax)

while read filelisting
do
cat -n file >>bigfile
done

sort bigfile >sortedfile

you would then have sortedfile looking like
1 123.1222
.. ... (98 more)
1 1.509 (last)
2 56.789

Perhaps then awk could sum up all for field1 is the same

Two concerns:
(a) bigfile will be a REALLY long file
(c) will the next sort command die with the REALLY long file?

Great. I got it. Try something like this.
Assume your files have the same base name with numbers after them 1 - 100 or so and the files are called filename1... filename<nnn>
The %.3f format specifier controls the precision of the output, this rounds to 1000ths

Hello jim,

thank you very much for your help.
The first part is working, the second part brings a syntax error at awk line 3.
Unfortunately, I dont know anything about awk.
I will check the syntax in the next few days, since it seems to me very powerful.
I would be very happy, if you could help me again anyway, because I think I need some time to get the awk usage...

One more question about sorting the files:
The first part makes a really big file, while I cant see at which position one file ends and the next is starting. Actually, you set an awk comand with the number 670'000, I think thats the file lenght of each seperate file in the big outpufile, is that rite?
Anyway, do you know, how i can join multiple one column files to one multiple column file. Seems to me not to be a really difficult task, however, I cant find any helpful information.

Thank you very much
chillmaster

Addition:

I found the syntax error, the last bracket was the wrong one... ) > }
Anyway, it is not working rite, avgfile:
Tried with just 5 files.