From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T03:13:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] calculations on lists of numbers

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes:

> for years i've felt that i should be able to pipe numerical output into some
> unix command like so
>
>   cat list | mean
>   cat list | sum
>   cat list | minmax
>
> etc.
>
> and have never found one.  right now i'm building a ruby version - before i
> continue, does anyone know a standard unix or ruby version of this?

What about hacking http://rubyforge.org/projects/sss/ ?

> cheers.
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