Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:14:11 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: averaging numbers in a stream Message-ID: <19991019221411.A893@stumpy.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991020000936.58813A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from David Scheidt on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:12:45AM -0500 References: <19991019203905.B30514@stumpy.dannyland.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96.991020000936.58813A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:12:45AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> yn Tue, 19 Oct 1999, dannyman wrote:
>
> > to average. Is there a cleaner way to do this, all on one line, with a
> > fairly standard Unix shell? In my case, tcsh.
>
> awk '{ foo += $1} END { print foo/NR}'
Smarty pants! :)
-d
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