Trying to make a bash script that goes through directory files and changes things
I'm trying to write a script in a directory that goes through the column the user specifies of 4 files that are inside the directory and calculates the min and the max values. This means that if the user specifies column 5, the script will go through column 5 of all 4 files and all that should give only one min and one max. Then the script would subtract the min from the max and then divide that value by two (finding the average). It would then replace values in that same column the user inputed earlier for all 4 files that are less than the average AND greater than the min with ‘ttt’ and ones that are greater than or equal to the average AND less than the max with ‘gcc’.
So far I've set up my script so that it checks the user input with this (giving the user an error if the number put is greater than 10)-
how do I continue with the rest of the script with searching the columns for min and max, and replacing the content of the files?
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
min
MIN(3) 1 MIN(3)min - Find lowest valueSYNOPSIS
mixed min (array $values)
DESCRIPTION
mixed min (mixed $value1, mixed $value2, [mixed $...])
If the first and only parameter is an array, min(3) returns the lowest value in that array. If at least two parameters are provided,
min(3) returns the smallest of these values.
Note
Values of different types will be compared using the standard comparison rules. For instance, a non-numeric string will be com-
pared to an integer as though it were 0, but multiple string values will be compared alphanumerically. The actual value returned
will be of the original type with no conversion applied.
PARAMETERS
o $values
- An array containing the values.
o $value1
- Any comparable value.
o $value2
- Any comparable value.
o $...
- Any comparable value.
RETURN VALUES min(3) returns the parameter value considered "lowest" according to standard comparisons. If multiple values of different types evaluate as
equal (e.g. 0 and 'abc') the first provided to the function will be returned.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Example uses of min(3)
<?php
echo min(2, 3, 1, 6, 7); // 1
echo min(array(2, 4, 5)); // 2
// The string 'hello' when compared to an int is treated as 0
// Since the two values are equal, the order they are provided determines the result
echo min(0, 'hello'); // 0
echo min('hello', 0); // hello
// Here we are comparing -1 < 0, so -1 is the lowest value
echo min('hello', -1); // -1
// With multiple arrays of different lengths, min returns the shortest
$val = min(array(2, 2, 2), array(1, 1, 1, 1)); // array(2, 2, 2)
// Multiple arrays of the same length are compared from left to right
// so in our example: 2 == 2, but 4 < 5
$val = min(array(2, 4, 8), array(2, 5, 1)); // array(2, 4, 8)
// If both an array and non-array are given, the array is never returned
// as comparisons treat arrays as greater than any other value
$val = min('string', array(2, 5, 7), 42); // string
// If one argument is NULL or a boolean, it will be compared against
// other values using the rule FALSE < TRUE regardless of the other types involved
// In the below examples, both -10 and 10 are treated as TRUE in the comparison
$val = min(-10, FALSE, 10); // FALSE
$val = min(-10, NULL, 10); // NULL
// 0, on the other hand, is treated as FALSE, so is "lower than" TRUE
$val = min(0, TRUE); // 0
?>
SEE ALSO max(3), count(3).
PHP Documentation Group MIN(3)