stats-select(1)

🎀 stats-select(1) 🎀

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for stats-select — yes, that (1) means it's a lil user command, and yes, she's from the stats-select squad 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

stats-select — select columns from a Tracer-format data file. That's the whole job. She picks columns. She's very good at it. 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

stats-select [OPTIONS] column-name [column-name ...]  < data-file

Read it like a vibe: you give her some [OPTIONS], then one or more column-names (yeah, she takes a whole list of them, greedy queen 👑), and the data comes in on stdin from data-file via <. Slay.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Select columns from a Tracer-format data file. 🫶

That's it. That's the description. Short, iconic, no notes. She reads a Tracer-format data file and pulls out the columns you asked for, that's the entire main character arc. ✨

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🌈 ALL OPTIONS: 🌈

not "some options", not "a few options" — ALL of them. Here's every single one, no crumbs left behind: 🍓

• -h, –help — Produce help message. The classic. She tells you how she works. 🥰
• –no-header — Suppress the line of column names. So the output just... doesn't have the header row anymore. Gone. Poof. 🙈
• -s arg, –select arg — Select on key=value pairs. (Yes, that arg is literally written as key=value in the page, so that's the shape of the thing. 🔥)
• -r, –remove — Remove selected columns, instead of keeping them. Flip the whole energy: instead of "gimme these", it's "take these away bestie". 💅
• -a arg, –add arg — Remove selected columns, instead of keeping them.

okay so real talk, the -a arg / –add arg entry says exactly the same thing as -r / –remove up above — "Remove selected columns, instead of keeping them." Not me editing it, that's literally what the page says, so that's what you get. 👀✨ (Also lowkey notice both -s/–select and -a/–add take an arg, and -h/–help, –no-header, and -r/–remove don't. iykyk.)

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😭 REPORTING BUGS: 😭

Found something cursed? Same. Here's where to yell about it (politely, please 🫶):

• BAli-Phy online help: http://www.bali-phy.org/docs.php.
• Please send bug reports to bali-phy-users@googlegroups.com.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Benjamin Redelings. The author. The blueprint. The moment. 💜

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that's the whole page babes — written back in Feb 2018, and it's the stats-select(1) manual, still serving looks. go select some columns, you've got this 🦋💖✨