Logarithmic Binning

Gawk, Numerical Methods, Tools

Posted: June 19th, 2007

An important problem when dealing with experimental data, whether this data originated in a “real” experiment in a numerical one, is to reduce the ammount of stochastic noise. This is specially important when trying to determine the distribution P(x) of a given quantity quantity x. A common approach is to apply some form of logarithmic […]

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Gawk for dummies - Part III

Gawk, Programming

Posted: May 3rd, 2007

Deep in the bowels of most UNIX based systems lies “gawk“, a little known command line application that can make your dealings with the ever pervasive text files much easier. We saw in Part I that Gawk looks at each file as if it were a flat database, divided in to several records, each subdivided […]

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Gawk for dummies - Part II

Gawk, Programming

Posted: April 23rd, 2007

Deep in the bowels of most UNIX based systems lies “gawk“, a little known command line application that can make your dealings with the ever pervasive text files much easier. In the second post of the series (you can find the first here) I look in to how we can tell gawk to split […]

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Gawk for dummies - Part I

Gawk, Programming

Posted: April 16th, 2007

Deep in the bowels of most UNIX based systems lies “gawk“, a little known command line application that can make your dealings with the ever pervasive text files much easier. This is the first of a series of posts that introduces the basics of this powerful tool.
Gawk can receive commands straight from the command line, […]

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