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Thanks both of you guys. This discussion has been really useful specially this latest round of comments from you both Scrutinizer and ctsgnb. I did not know that you could actually pass awk variable...

Yeah i think those are the only options. I was hoping if theres any neat trick in awk that I don't know of, which allows me to scan the same input files twice but it seems I am just imagining.
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Hi ctsgnb
First of all please accept my thanks for taking out the time to offer me a solution. I appreciate your effort.
Your solution looks good but frankly I had thought along similar lines but...

Sure, I will try my best. okay heres two files test1.txt and test2.txt:


test1.txt

0,0.0-0.1,0.00087
0,0.0-0.1,0.00089
1,0.1-0.2,0.00100
1,0.1-0.2,0.00074
1,0.1-0.2,0.00097...

Hi folks
I have a situation where I am trying to use awk to compute mean and standard deviation for a variable that spans across multiple files. The layout of each file is same and arranged in 3...