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From: "Dan Larsson" <dl@tyfon.net>
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Subject: RE: calculate sum in sh
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:55:36 +0200
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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

Perfect! Thanks! 

| 

Regards
------------
Dan Larsson


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