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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:41:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
Subject: RE: calculate sum in sh
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On 22-May-00 Dan Larsson wrote:
> How to I calculate the sum of all values, the
> values are listed one value per line in a textfile 
> using shell commands (no perl available)?
> 
Not pure shelling, but you can try this with awk

File 'crap.txt' is :

1
2
3
20

then 

lagrange> awk '{sum += $0} END{print "Grand total is "sum}' crap.txt
Grand total is 26

Use $1 if you want field number 1 instead of summing the entire line,
which is OK in this example.

/M

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