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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Using While and If statements Post 302489831 by otheus on Friday 21st of January 2011 07:48:10 PM

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Wow, some of the above examples defy simplicity to the nth+1 degree.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
let count=0
let largest=-999999
while read input; do
    let number[$count]=$input;
    if [ $input -gt $largest ] ; then
         let largest=$input;
    fi;
    let  sum=sum+number
    let count=count=+1
done

The trouble I have difficulty with is "finding median with an if statement". BASH doesn't deal with floating point, so I'm not sure how to accomplish this. We could use sort but that would obviate the need for an if clause. We could iteratively throw away the highest and lowest values, but that's a lot of work (computationally).

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pnmhistmap

pnmhistmap(1)						      General Commands Manual						     pnmhistmap(1)

NAME

       pnmhistmap - draw a histogram for a PGM or PPM file

SYNOPSIS

       pnmhistmap [-black] [-white] [-max N] [-verbose] [pnmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  anymap  as input, although bitmap (PBM) input produces an error message and no image.  Produces an image showing a his-
       togram of the color (or gray) values in the input.  A graymap (PGM) input produces a bitmap output.  A pixmap (PPM) input  produces  pixmap
       output  with  three  overlaid  histograms: a red one for the red input, a green one for the green input, and a blue one for the blue input.
       The output is fixed in size: 256 pixels wide by 200 pixels high.

OPTIONS

       -black Ignores the count of black pixels when scaling the histogram.

       -white Ignores the count of white pixels when scaling the histogram.

       The -black and -white options, which can be used seperately or together, are useful for images with a  large  percentage  of  pixels  whose
       value is zero or 255, which can cause the remaining histogram data to become unreadbaly small.  Note that, for pixmap inputs, these options
       apply to all colors; if, for example, the input has a large number of bright-red areas, you will probably want to use the -white option.

       -max N Force the scaling of the histogram to use N as the largest-count value.  This is useful for inputs with a large percentage  of  sin-
	      gle-color pixels which are not black or white.

       -verbose
	      Report the progress of making the histogram, including the largest-count value used to scale the output.

       All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

BUGS

       Assumes	maxval	is  always  255.   Images with a smaller maxval will only use the lower-value side of the histogram.  This can be overcome
       either by piping the input through "pnmdepth 255" or by cutting and scaling the lower-value side of the histogram.  Neither is  a  particu-
       larly elegant solution.

       Should allow the output size to be specified.

SEE ALSO

       pgmhist(1), ppmhist(1), pgm(5), ppm(5)

AUTHOR

       Wilson H. Bent. Jr. (whb@usc.edu).

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