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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Partial average of a column with awk Post 302419117 by anbu23 on Thursday 6th of May 2010 10:48:41 AM
Old 05-06-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by DMini
Thanks anbu23! I just have one question:
I tried with only one FILE_${m} containing 1.0 in each line on column 3.
So the average should be 7*1.0/7 = 1.0, but instead I get 0.142857 which is equal to 1/7.
So I replaced your solution with:
AVERAGE=$(awk ' NR==11 && NR<= 17{sum +=$3; if(NR == 17){exit}} END {print sum}' $FILE)

This time it works, but I don't understand why... any idea?
Use Franklin52's code or this
Code:
AVERAGE=$(awk ' NR>=11 && NR<= 17{sum +=$3; if(NR == 17){exit}} END {print sum/7}' $FILE)

 

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COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]] DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output. If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec- ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not zero. Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one. ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1) HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD
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