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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting getting the average of a list of decimals. Post 50445 by djsal on Friday 23rd of April 2004 06:43:50 PM
Old 04-23-2004
getting the average of a list of decimals.

Whats up fellas, I am new here... just wanted to see if anyone knew a way to get an avergage of a list of numbers... I am trying to use bc (number of records in file divided by sum of all records in file) but it is not giving me accurate data.

IE:

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COUNT=`wc -l $datafile | awk '{print $1}'`


SUM=`sumfld $datafile 2 | awk '{print $NF}' #sumfld is internal utilty to add contents of datafile's feild

AVG=`echo "$SUM / $COUNT" | bc`
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I find that if the $COUNT=2, and $SUM=9.99, $AVG should be be about 4.995, but instead it just returning 4. Any help would be appreciated.





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Xmark(1)						      General Commands Manual							  Xmark(1)

NAME
Xmark - summarize x11perf results SYNTAX
Xmark datafile DESCRIPTION
Xmark is a shell script that reads the indicated datafile and compiles a benchmark which it writes to standard output. It writes three numbers: A weighted performance number for the x11perf results. A weighted performance number for a standard SparcStation 1, with SunOS 4.1.2, X11R5 Xsun, and a CG3 dumb Color Frame Buffer. The Xmark, which is the ratio of the two numbers above. The datafile must be an ordinary file, produced by x11perf in the following way: x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy GXxor -all > datafile It is possible to run the GXcopy and GXxor tests separately, as long as they are concatenated to the same output file: x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all > datafile x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all >> datafile or x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all > datafile x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all >> datafile FILES
temp.$$ Temporary file created in the current directory, deleted after use. DIAGNOSTICS
Usage: Xmark datafile Xmark was invoked without arguments or with more than one argument, or with options. Xmark takes no options. Error: data file does not exist or is not ordinary. Xmark cannot find the datafile named on its command line, or the datafile is a special file such as a directory. WARNING: datafile contains nnn, not 441 or 447 'trep' results; The file named on the command line does not seem to be a file generated by x11perf in the expected way. Diagnostic: ERROR: sum of weights =nnn, not equal to 4566.0; There is an internal error in Xmark. SEE ALSO
X(7), x11perf(1), x11perfcomp(1) XFree86 Version 4.7.0 Xmark(1)
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