diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man/median.1 | 64 |
1 files changed, 64 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/median.1 b/doc/man/median.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b684304 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man/median.1 @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.TH MEDIAN 1 MEDIAN +.SH NAME +median - Calculate the median values for a set of groups +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B median +< +.I INPUT +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B median +takes the first blank space-separated column values and the remainder +as keys. It will then print the median for each key. As a side effect +median will print the result sorted by the keys. +.SH EXAMPLES +.nf +$ cat <<EOF | median +\-10 +2 +4 +3 +50 +EOF +3 +.fi +.PP +.nf +$ cat <<EOF | median +\+003 c +\&.001 a +\-002 b +\+001 c +\-001 b +\+002 c +EOF +\&.001 a +\-001.5 b +\+002 c +.fi +.SH RATIONALE +Combining +.BR sort (1), +.BR sed (1), +.BR wc (1), +.BR expr (1) +to do this is too much work to do on a regular basis. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR sort (1), +.BR expr (1), +.BR sets (1) +.PP +Full documentation available locally via: info \(aq(median)\(aq +.SH AUTHORS +Principal author, Mattias Andrée. See the COPYING file for the full +list of authors. +.SH LICENSE +Copyright \(co 2014, 2015 Mattias Andrée +.br +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +.br +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH BUGS +Please report bugs to https://github.com/maandree/median/issues or to +maandree@member.fsf.org |