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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calculate difference between consecutive data points in a column from a file Post 302460886 by danmero on Thursday 7th of October 2010 11:22:38 PM
Old 10-08-2010
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Originally Posted by malandisa
Hi,

I have a file with one column data (sample below) and I am trying to write a shell script to calculate the difference between consecutive data valuse
In my opinion the difference between -1 and 1 is 2, like that a difference between any two numbers will be positive.
From here I see that you just want to subtract a number from a previous number and in this case the solution provided by rdcwayx will work just fine.
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pnmarith(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  pnmarith(1)

NAME
pnmarith - perform arithmetic on two portable anymaps SYNOPSIS
pnmarith -add|-subtract|-multiply|-difference|-minimum|-maximum. pnmfile1 pnmfile2 DESCRIPTION
Reads two portable anymaps as input. Performs the specified arithmetic operation, and produces a portable anymap as output. The two input anymaps must be the same width and height. The arithmetic is performed between corresponding pixels in the two anymaps, as if maxval was 1.0, black was 0.0, and a linear scale in between. Results that fall outside of [0..1) are truncated. The operator -difference calculates the absolute value of pnmarith -subtract pnmfile1 pnmfile2, i.e. no truncation is done. All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. SEE ALSO
pbmmask(1), pnmpaste(1), pnminvert(1), pnm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. Lightly modified by Marcel Wijkstra <wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl> 26 August 1993 pnmarith(1)
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