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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help on getting the first few characters of a file. Post 302430431 by durden_tyler on Thursday 17th of June 2010 02:30:33 PM
Old 06-17-2010
Code:
$
$ cat f6
9 JACOBS 0175
10 VENDOR_0175
11 JACOBS 0175
100 0175
$
$ awk '{x = x","$1} END{print substr(x,2)}' f6
9,10,11,100
$

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gsl-randist

GSL-RANDIST(1)						      General Commands Manual						    GSL-RANDIST(1)

NAME

       gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions

SYNOPSYS

       gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..]

DESCRIPTION

       gsl-randist  is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library.	It generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using the
       distribution parameters param1, param2, ...

EXAMPLE

       Here is an example.  We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy distribution with a width of 30 and histogram them over the range  -100
       to 100, using 200 bins.

	    gsl-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > histogram.dat

       A  plot	of  the  resulting histogram will show the familiar shape of the Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample
       size.

	    awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X

SEE ALSO

       gsl(3), gsl-histogram(1).

AUTHOR

       gsl-randist was written by James Theiler and Brian Gough.  Copyright 1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence.

       This manual page was added by the Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for GSL.

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