This is due by 3/9/2018

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Students will create a BASH shell script to process the data contained in an external file. The external file contains particle names and their momentums (one particle per line) collected during a particle accelerator test at CERN.

Write a BASH shell script that uses a combination of the Linux commands cat, cut, grep, numaverage, numbound, uniq, sort, and wc to summarize the data contained in an external file

Note: Students should use the man command to learn more about each of the above Linux commands.

The script should accept the name of the external file as a command-line argument

The script should display the total number of particles recorded in the file

The script should summarize the data of each unique particle (species):

Note 1: Do NOT create temporary files to store data - chain commands together with piping.

Note 2: All decimal values should be displayed to six (6) decimal places.

Name of particle species

Total number of occurrences of the species

Minimum momentum of the species

Maximum momentum of the species

Average momentum of the species

Two (2) data files are provided for use with the BASH script: small.dat and large.dat

Use the small.dat file to test and perfect the BASH script Use the large.dat file to produce the output you will include in the Linux Lab submission

Example (using the small.dat file) Contents (subset) of the small.dat file

NEUTRON 20.900103

PION- 0.215176

PION- 22.716532

NEUTRON 8.043279

PION+ 1.374297

PION- 0.313350

PION+ 0.167848

Summary of the complete small.dat file

Total Species: 26

Species Information:

Name Count Minimum Maximum Average

-------- ----- --------- --------- ---------

KAON- 1 5.489958 5.489958 5.489958

NEUTRON 2 8.043279 20.900103 14.471691

PHOTON 10 0.034664 1.897264 0.652727

PION- 5 0.192247 22.716532 5.145192

PION+ 7 0.167848 7.631051 2.691639

PROTON 1 1.160216 1.160216 1.160216