awk average part of column if lines (specific field) match

Question

Here is a sample of my input file :

$cat NDVI-bm  
P01 031.RAW 0.516 0 0  
P01 021.RAW 0.449 0 0  
P02 045.RAW 0.418 0 0  
P03 062.RAW 0.570 0 0  
P03 064.RAW 0.         


        

Answer 1

E.g to calculate the average of lines starting with "P01":

/^P01/{
    num+=1
    cnt+=$3
}
END {print "avg = " cnt/num}

Output:

$ awk -f avg.awk input
avg = 0.4825

...or, as a oneliner:

$ awk '/^P01/{cnt+=$3; num+=1} END{print "avg="cnt/num}' input

Or to do the calculations for all values of the first column simultaneously:

{
    sum[$1]+=$3
    cnt[$1]++
}


END {
    print "Name" "\t" "sum" "\t" "cnt" "\t" "avg"
    for (i in sum)
        print i "\t" sum[i] "\t" cnt[i] "\t" sum[i]/cnt[i]

}

Outputs:

$ awk -f avg.awk input
Name    sum     cnt     avg
P01     0.965   2       0.4825
P02     0.418   1       0.418
P03     1.039   2       0.5195
P04     2.481   4       0.62025
P05     0.748   1       0.748