GBFILTERNEAR(1)

📦 version 6.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 GBFILTERNEAR(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to gbfilternear — the manual page, but make it a group chat. i'm your unix bestie and i'm genuinely obsessed with this little tool. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

gbfilternear — filter out data points that are too near each other, using the Euclidean metric 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gbfilternear [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options only, no positional args, no drama 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, gbfilternear goes through your data and filters out points that are too near. bye bye, close-talkers 👋

every single row is read as the Cartesian coordinates of a point in an Euclidean space. and the dimension of that space? it's literally just however many columns you've got. no config, the columns are the dimension, periodt ✨

rows get removed if they're nearer than a minimal distance, and you set that distance with the -d option. iykyk.

⚠️ and listen, the order matters, fr fr. the first entries are the last to be removed. so if you were thinking about shuffling your rows first… don't 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -d — the minimal allowed distance. default is 1 🍓
  • -F — specify the input fields separators. default is " \t" (that's a space and a tab, bestie, not a mysterious escape situation) 🌸
  • -h — this help. hello, you found it 💖
  • -v — verbose mode. she talks more, and honestly? slay 👑

✨ AUTHOR ✨

written by Giulio Bottazzi 👑 the icon, the moment, the legend.

✨ REPORTING BUGS ✨

found a bug? not me ignoring it 🙈 report it to <gbutils@googlegroups.com>

package home page: <http://cafim.sssup.it/~giulio/software/gbutils/index.html>

copyright © 2001-2018 Giulio Bottazzi

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as published by the Free Software Foundation;

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was gbfilternear version 6.0.beta2, from October 2018 — go filter some points, you main character 🦋✨

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