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 xsv:

$ echo '3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 9' |tr ' ' '\n' > numbers-one-per-line.csv

$ xsv stats -n < numbers-one-per-line.csv 
field,type,sum,min,max,min_length,max_length,mean,stddev
0,Integer,53,1,9,1,1,4.416666666666667,2.5644470922381863

# mode/median/cardinality not shown by default since it requires storing full file in memory:
$ xsv stats -n --everything < numbers-one-per-line.csv | xsv table
field  type     sum  min  max  min_length  max_length  mean               stddev              median  mode  cardinality
0      Integer  53   1    9    1           1           4.416666666666667  2.5644470922381863  4.5     5     7