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Old 07-12-2007
Use awk to calculate average of column 3
Suppose I have 500 files in a directory and I need to Use awk to calculate average of column 3 for each of the file, how would I do that?
# 2  
Old 07-12-2007
I think the more appropiate question is it retarded to use awk in this scenario? Is there a better way?
# 3  
Old 07-12-2007
Code:
ls -ltr your_directory |awk '{sum+=$5} END { print "Average = ",sum/NR}'

I think awk is more simple for this task
# 4  
Old 07-12-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by lorcan
Code:
ls -ltr your_directory |awk '{sum+=$5} END { print "Average = ",sum/NR}'

I think awk is more simple for this task
i think OP is asking for column3 of inside the file.
# 5  
Old 07-12-2007
Maybe something like:
Code:
$ (cd awkdir ; ls | while read filename ; do awk '{sum+=$3} END { print "Average for " FILENAME " = ",sum/NR}' $filename ; done)
Average for one =  6
Average for three =  26
Average for two =  16
$

# 6  
Old 07-27-2007
I think NR isn't the right thing to use, suppose for some lines, field 3 is empty, I think somehow you need an emptiness check and average =s/(NR-numemptylines)
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Old 07-27-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by onthetopo
I think NR isn't the right thing to use, suppose for some lines, field 3 is empty, I think somehow you need an emptiness check and average =s/(NR-numemptylines)
I think that using just NR is the right approach
as empty values would affect the final average

and the OP had not specified anything about that.

But its good to have a different opinion Smilie
 
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