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        perl-Fsdb - A set of commands for manipulating flat-text databases from the shell
        
        
        - Description:
 
        FSDB is a package of commands for manipulating flat-ASCII databases from
shell scripts.  FSDB is useful to process medium amounts of data (with
very little data you'd do it by hand, with megabytes you might want a
real database).  FSDB is very good at doing things like:
        - extracting measurements from experimental output
        - re-examining data to address different hypotheses
        - joining data from different experiments
        - eliminating/detecting outliers
        - computing statistics on data (mean, confidence intervals,
                correlations, histograms)
        - reformatting data for graphing programs
Rather than hand-code scripts to do each special case, FSDB provides
higher-level functions than one gets with raw perl or shell scripts.
(Some features:  control uses names instead of column numbers,
it is self-documenting, and is robust with good error and memory handling.) 
        
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