Manual for stats

1. stats(8)
3. stats(8)

NAME

stats - Common basic statistics on typical numeric data in output

SYNOPSIS

`other command

stats [-c N] [-d D] [-x

-g

-t

-o image.png] [-s N] [-v] [-b N]

DESCRIPTION

The stats command helps analyze common numerical data such as performance numbers or temperatures or any other numerical value.

By default it looks for the last numerical output on the first line to identify the numerical column and analyze that number. This can be overriden by -c COLUMN to indicate a column. By default, whitespace and commas are treated to delimit columns, and -d DELIMITER can be used to override.

By default it outputs basic statistics, but a histogram is available either text or through X11 output or sixel or output to an image file depending on whether -x, -g, -t*, or **-o image.png is used.

OPTIONS

-c N

Select column number. Defaults to last column that appears numeric

-d D

Specify a custom column delimiter

-x

Output in Sixel format (supported by mlterm and PuTTY, among others)

-g

Try to open histogram as an X window

-t

Output histogram as bars rendered by =

-o image.png

Write graphical histogram to image.png.

-s N

Ignore specified number of lines as header content before processing numbers

-v

Treat value before : on each line as a label, and show which labels belong to which histogram buckets.

-b N

Specify a custom number of buckets for histogram. The default is 10.

2. October 2023
3. stats(8)