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    The jq solution is worthy of a special mention, since it's succinct, and re-purposes the tool in a non-obvious way. Commented May 10, 2017 at 11:31
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    beautiful! wish i could give +2 Commented Jul 19, 2017 at 21:16
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    Extended a little: jq -s '{ min:min, max:max, sum:add, count:length, avg: (add/length), median: (sort | .[ length/2 ]) }' shows the output as an object with labels, pretty printed with colors! Commented Sep 24, 2020 at 20:14
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    @Grynn That's not right for median. For an odd list echo '[1,2,3]' | jq 'sort | .[length/2]' your code gives the answer 'null', and for an even list echo '[1,2,3,4]' | jq 'sort | .[length/2]' your code picks the third element '3' but it should give the answer 2.5, the mean of the middle two elements. Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 18:14
  • @LucianWischik - Good point! Probably better to fix this is a public gist, rather than comment stream ... but jq 'sort | .[(length/2) | floor] would work for odd length lists? Cannot think of a very compact way to handle even lists Commented Nov 14, 2020 at 13:46