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

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1 .\" RCSid "$Id: total.1,v 1.11 2019/07/20 00:57:43 greg Exp $"
2 .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 .B \-i{f|d}[N]
19 ][
20 .B \-o{f|d}
21 ][
22 .B "\-in M"
23 ][
24 .B "\-on M"
25 ][
26 .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 If a power is also specified using the
72 .I \-s
73 option, the inverse power will be applied to the averaged result.
74 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 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 A count can be given as the number of lines to read before
96 computing a result.
97 Normally,
98 .I total
99 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 .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 give a running total every N lines (or every blank line).
116 This option also turns off the usual output flushing at each total.
117 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 .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 .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 .SH EXAMPLES
137 To compute the RMS value of colon-separated columns in a file:
138 .IP "" .2i
139 total \-t: \-m \-s2 input
140 .PP
141 To produce a running product of values from a file:
142 .IP "" .2i
143 total \-p \-1 \-r input
144 .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 cnt(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rcollate(1), rlam(1), rsplit(1), tabfunc(1)