topic Re: Sum of some data (easy points ...) in Operating System - HP-UX

Sum of some data (easy points ...)

Olivier Decorse — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:39:49 GMT

Hi,
i'm searching how to do the sum of data in a file.
For example, file contains :
15 a
15 b
30 c
I want to do :
cat file | awk '{print $1 }' | unix_command_that_do_a_sum
and receive :
60

Thank's in advance.

Re: Sum of some data (easy points ...)

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:44:04 GMT

# perl -nle'END{print$sum}$sum+=$_' file

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Sum of some data (easy points ...)

Dietmar Konermann — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:44:05 GMT

cat file | awk '{sum=sum+$1} END {print sum}'

Re: Sum of some data (easy points ...)

Cheryl Griffin — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:45:37 GMT

Re: Sum of some data (easy points ...)

Olivier Decorse — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:47:58 GMT

Very quick !

Thanks !
Olivier.