Re: Suggestion: add the possibility to apply multiple operations to a single column (or multiple columns)

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi Tomas,

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 10:17:26AM +0100, Tomas Peitl wrote:
> 
> My suggestion is to make it possible to write
> 
> datamash mean,max,count 2
> 
> instead of
> 
> datamash mean 2 max 2 count 2
> 
> i.e. to remove the repetitiveness in the field identifier when
> multiple operations are needed on the same field. Of course, it
> doesn't have to be just a single field, you could also do
> 
> datamash mean,max,count 1-2,4 perc 2-3
> 
> or anything like that.

I do like the idea, but I do not think that I have sufficient time and
motivation to implement it, at least not in the short term.

Cheers,
Erik