BC to add items in a collumn

[hpuxrox]

I have a file that looks like this,

143413413
412342346
432434877
434978867
432654657

How would I use bc to cat this file and add the numbers?

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
why bc ?

See earlier threads:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=22594
https://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1080308

[hpuxrox]

Sorry, I can not use awk or perl

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
found on an old website:
#!/bin/ksh
TOTAL=0
for NUMBER in `cat `
do
TOTAL=`echo $NUMBER + $TOTAL |bc -l`
done
echo $TOTAL

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Here is one approach:

TF="/var/tmp/TF${$}"

trap 'eval rm -f ${TF}' 0 1 2 3 15

INFILE=myfile
echo "a=0" > ${TF}
cat ${INFILE} | while read N
do
echo "a+=${N}" >> ${TF}
done
echo "a" >> ${TF}
TOT=$(bc < ${TF})
echo "Total: ${TOT}"

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

cat filename |xargs echo|sed "s/ / + /g"|bc

live free or die
harry

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

a solution with dc:

(sed '2,$s/$/+/' /tmp/num; print p) | dc

mfG Peter

[Sandman!]

Yet another way of doing the same thing...

# p=0; while read l;do p=$(echo "$l + $p" | bc); done < infile;echo $p

~cheers

[Hein van den Heuvel]

>> Sorry, I can not use awk or perl

Unacceptable.

Please explain.

Sure you can.

Apparently you can not use BC either, so why not use / learn somethign much more versatile and useful in the long run.

Regards,
Hein.

[hpuxrox]

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[Hein van den Heuvel]

Randall,

You may not have liked my answer and that's ok, but please humor me and explain why it had to be 'bc' and why you had to 'cat' the file. I'm curious and always eager to learn!

Regards,
Hein.