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NAME
     total  -  total  and  subtotal  numeric columns in a text file according to
     field keys

SYNOPSIS
     total [-Ndv] <key-cols> <data-columns> <file>

DESCRIPTION
     total reads a text file of columnar data in text and  numeric  format.   By
     default,  columns	are separated by one or more whitespace characters.  The
     -F option allows on to choose a separation character.  In this case exactly
     one separation character lies between columns.

     total forms data keys from combinations of text and numeric  columns.   and
     for  each	key  value  it can summarize numeric columns, either by average,
     sum, minimum or maximum.  After reading the file it  prints  a  summary  of
     each key combination found in the file along with the summarized data.  Op-
     tionally, you can summarize entire columns without regard to key values.

OUTPUT
     total  prints  one line of output for each key combination.  Each line con-
     tains 0 or more key fields, and 1 or more summarization  fields  (if  there
     are  0 keys, then all records are summarized together - they are not broken
     down by key).

EXAMPLE
     Consider the following data file where the  five  columns	represent  city,
     state, month, precipitation and average temp.

	columbus ohio  jan   3	25
	columbus ohio  feb   2	20
	columbus ohio  mar   5	32
	akron ohio  jan   5  22
	akron ohio  feb   8  18
	akron ohio  mar   3  28
	bridgeport ct jan 5 29
	bridgeport ct feb 1 32
	bridgeport ct mar 3 41

     suppose  we  want	the average temperature for these three cities over Jan,
     Feb, Mar.	The command would be this,

	total 1,2 5a state.fil

     total uses columns 1 and 2 as data keys.  Then for each unique  combination
     of  city  (column 1) and state (column 2) it takes the average temperature.
     The output looks like this (note that output is sorted by key)

	akron ohio 2.266667e+01
	bridgeport connecticut 34
	columbus ohio 2.566667e+01

     If we want total precipitation for each city,

	total 1,2 4 state.fil

     and the output is

	akron ohio 16
	bridgeport connecticut 9
	columbus ohio 10

     If we want average temperature across each state we could try

	total 2 5a state.fil

     and get

	ohio 2.416667e+01
	connecticut 34

     Finally, if we want the maximum temperature for the entire file we could do

	total - 5x state.fil

     and get

	41

KEY COLUMNS
     The first parameter specifies the key columns.  This is a	comma  delimited
     list  of  columns	numbers  with  no  whitespace.	The columns are numbered
     starting at column 1.  In the first example above we used columns 1  and  2
     (city and state) for our keys.

     There  is also a special value '-' which tells total not to separate values
     into keys, but to summarize the entire file.

DATA COLUMNS
     The second parameter specifies data columns and the action on the data col-
     umn.  This is a comma delimited list with no white space.	Each data column
     specification consists of a column number and an optional	command  in  the
     form  of  a  single letter.  The default command is to sun the column.  The
     letter commands perform the following operations on the column.

	s  Sum (the default).
	a  Average.
	d  Standard deviation.
	m  Minimum.
	x  Maximum.
	n  Number of rows.
	f  Column value from first row.
	l  Column value from last row.

OUTPUT COLUMNS
     For every key column and data column total produce an output  column.   The
     order  in	which  the columns are written is the same as the order in which
     the key columns, and then data columns are specified on the  command  line.
     For example, if you use the command

	 total 3,1  5,6,8,7  data.fil

     the  output  file	will  have 6 columns, the first output column is carried
     from column 3 of the input file, the second output column is  carried  from
     column  1	of  the input file, the third output column from column 5 of the
     input file, and so on.

OPTIONS
     -v     Prints version and number of default hash table slots (actual number
	    of slots adjustable via -n option).

     -d     Enter debugging mode, writes out various info.

     -N <nslots>
	    Set number of hash table slots.

BUGS
     Report any to jon.rifkin@uconn.edu.

AUTHOR
     j rifkin <jon.rifkin@uconn.edu>
     http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net

VERSION
     1.0 Oct 13, 2005

total 1.0			  October 2005				total(1)

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