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From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
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Subject: Re: averaging numbers in a stream
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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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