Buzzard2015_pseudo.md

Hints and pseudo code for Exercise 1.10.4 (data from Buzzard et al., 2016)

1. You can select a given column from a csv file using the command cut. Then,
   • The column name is going to be in the first line (header); access it with head
   • The number of distinct values can be found by counting the number of lines when you have sorted them and removed duplicates (using a combination of tail, sort and uniq)
   • The minimum and maximum values can be found by combining sort and head (or tail)
   • To write the script, use the generic placeholders $1 and $2 for the file name and column number, respectively