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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Adding Number in a File
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, BSD Freak wrote:

> I want to add up all the numbers on each line of this file and output
> the sum to standard output.
>
> Any ideas how to do this ??

awk '{tot+=$1}; END {print tot}' path-to-your-file


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