command line utility to print statistics of numbers in linux

Question

I often find myself with a file that has one number per line. I end up importing it in excel to view things like median, standard deviation and so forth.

Is there a

Answer 1

Using "st" (https://github.com/nferraz/st)

$ st numbers.txt
N    min   max   sum   mean  stddev
10   1     10    55    5.5   3.02765

Or:

$ st numbers.txt --transpose
N      10
min    1
max    10
sum    55
mean   5.5
stddev 3.02765

(DISCLAIMER: I wrote this tool :))