With perl:
$ printf '%s\n' 1 2 4 | perl -MList::Util=min,max -MStatistics::Basic=mean,median -w -le ' chomp(@l = <>); print for min(@l), max(@l), mean(@l), median(@l)' 1 4 2.33 2 With perl:
$ printf '%s\n' 1 2 4 | perl -MList::Util=min,max -MStatistics::Basic=mean,median -w -le ' chomp(@l = <>); print for min(@l), max(@l), mean(@l), median(@l)' 1 4 2.33 2