Find average of a field on command line Revision as of 12:56, 18 April 2014 by Arjun Suresh (talk | contribs) (diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

<syntaxhighlight lang="awk" name="avg">

1. !/usr/bin/awk -f
2. Calculate average, syntax: ./avg.awk field-number file

BEGIN {field = ARGV[1]; ARGV[1] = "" } { sum += $field } END { print sum / NR} </syntaxhighlight>

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