commands.sh

datamash

linux

Perform basic numeric, textual, and statistical operations on input textual data files.

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Options (1)

-R, --roundboolean

Get the mean of a single column of numbers with a given decimal precision

Example: echo -e '1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n5' | datamash {{[-R|--round]}} {{number_of_decimals_wanted}} mean 1

Examples (4)

Get max, min, mean, and median of a single column of numbers

seq 3 | datamash max 1 min 1 mean 1 median 1

Get the mean of a single column of float numbers (floats must use "," and not ".")

echo -e '1.0\n2.5\n3.1\n4.3\n5.6\n5.7' | tr '.' ',' | datamash mean 1

Get the mean of a single column of numbers with a given decimal precision

echo -e '1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n5' | datamash [-R|--round] number_of_decimals_wanted mean 1

Get the mean of a single column of numbers ignoring "Na" and "NaN" (literal) strings

echo -e '1\n2\nNa\n3\nNaN' | datamash --narm mean 1
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