Re:Show HN: st – simple statistics from the command line
by philsnow on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:54AM
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One suggestion: whatever the default may be, give an option to have line-delimited output rather than column-delimited.
IMHO if you want your script's output to be easily usable by other scripts, line-delimited is easier since you can grep out what lines you want rather than having to rely on the column position never changing (since you can give cut only a field number and not a field name like "average").
IMHO if you want your script's output to be easily usable by other scripts, line-delimited is easier since you can grep out what lines you want rather than having to rely on the column position never changing (since you can give cut only a field number and not a field name like "average").