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Revision: 1.12
Committed: Tue Nov 16 03:30:45 2021 UTC (3 years, 5 months ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rad5R4, HEAD
Changes since 1.11: +2 -1 lines
Log Message:
feat(total): added automatic output flushing unless -r option is present

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# User Rev Content
1 greg 1.12 .\" RCSid "$Id: total.1,v 1.11 2019/07/20 00:57:43 greg Exp $"
2 greg 1.1 .TH TOTAL 1 2/3/95 RADIANCE
3     .SH NAME
4     total - sum up columns
5     .SH SYNOPSIS
6     .B total
7     [
8     .B \-m
9     ][
10     .B \-sE
11     |
12     .B \-p
13     |
14     .B \-u
15     |
16     .B \-l
17     ][
18 greg 1.4 .B \-i{f|d}[N]
19     ][
20     .B \-o{f|d}
21     ][
22 greg 1.9 .B "\-in M"
23     ][
24     .B "\-on M"
25     ][
26 greg 1.1 .B \-tC
27     ][
28     .B \-N
29     [
30     .B \-r
31     ]]
32     [
33     file ..
34     ]
35     .SH DESCRIPTION
36     .I Total
37     sums up columns of real numbers from one or more files
38     and prints out the result on its standard output.
39     .PP
40     By default,
41     .I total
42     computes the straigt sum of each input column, but multiplication
43     can be specified instead with the
44     .I \-p
45     option.
46     Likewise, the
47     .I \-u
48     option means find the upper limit (maximum), and
49     .I \-l
50     means find the lower limit (minimum).
51     .PP
52     Sums of powers can be computed by giving an exponent with the
53     .I \-s
54     option.
55     (Note that there is no space between the
56     .I \-s
57     and the exponent.)
58     This exponent can be any real number, positive or negative.
59     The absolute value of the input is always taken before the
60     power is computed in order to avoid complex results.
61     Thus,
62     .I \-s1
63     will produce a sum of absolute values.
64     The default power (zero) is interpreted as a straight sum without
65     taking absolute values.
66     .PP
67     The
68     .I \-m
69     option can be used to compute the mean rather than the total.
70     For sums, the arithmetic mean is computed.
71 greg 1.10 If a power is also specified using the
72     .I \-s
73     option, the inverse power will be applied to the averaged result.
74 greg 1.1 For products, the geometric mean is computed.
75     (A logarithmic sum of absolute values is used to avoid overflow, and
76     zero values are silently ignored.)
77     .PP
78 greg 1.4 If the input data is binary, the
79     .I \-id
80     or
81     .I \-if
82     option may be given for 64-bit double or 32-bit float values, respectively.
83     Either option may be followed immediately by an optional
84     count, which defaults to 1, indicating the number of double or float
85     binary values to read per record on the input file.
86     (There can be no space between the option and this count.)\0
87     Similarly, the
88     .I \-od
89     and
90     .I \-of
91     options specify binary double or float output, respectively.
92     These options do not need a count, as this will be determined by the
93     number of input channels.
94     .PP
95 greg 1.1 A count can be given as the number of lines to read before
96     computing a result.
97 greg 1.6 Normally,
98 greg 1.1 .I total
99 greg 1.6 reads each file to its end before producing its result,
100     but this behavior may be overridden by inserting blank lines in
101     the input.
102     For each blank input line, total produces a result as if the
103     end-of-file had been reached.
104     If two blank lines immediately follow each other, total closes
105     the file and proceeds to the next one (after reporting the result).
106     The
107 greg 1.1 .I \-N
108     option (where N is a decimal integer) tells
109     .I total
110     to produce a result and reset the calculation after
111     every N input lines.
112     In addition, the
113     .I \-r
114     option can be specified to override reinitialization and thus
115 greg 1.6 give a running total every N lines (or every blank line).
116 greg 1.12 This option also turns off the usual output flushing at each total.
117 greg 1.1 If the end of file is reached, the current total is printed
118     and the calculation is reset before the next file (with or without the
119     .I \-r
120     option).
121     .PP
122     The
123 greg 1.9 .I \-in
124     option if present, will limit the number of input records read
125     (per input file).
126     The
127     .I \-on
128     option may be used to limit the total number of outut records produced.
129     .PP
130     The
131 greg 1.1 .I \-tC
132     option can be used to specify the input and output tab character.
133     The default tab character is TAB.
134     .PP
135     If no files are given, the standard input is read.
136 greg 1.11 .SH EXAMPLES
137 greg 1.1 To compute the RMS value of colon-separated columns in a file:
138     .IP "" .2i
139 greg 1.7 total \-t: \-m \-s2 input
140 greg 1.1 .PP
141     To produce a running product of values from a file:
142     .IP "" .2i
143 greg 1.7 total \-p \-1 \-r input
144 greg 1.1 .SH BUGS
145     If the input files have varying numbers of columns, mean values
146     will certainly be off.
147     .I Total
148     will ignore missing column entries if the tab separator is a non-white
149     character, but cannot tell where a missing column should have been if
150     the tab character is white.
151     .SH AUTHOR
152     Greg Ward
153     .SH "SEE ALSO"
154 greg 1.11 cnt(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rcollate(1), rlam(1), rsplit(1), tabfunc(1)