Adding up columns of numbers.

[Mark Weiser]

In article <9273 at brl-tgr.ARPA> root%bostonu.csnet at csnet-relay.arpa (BostonU SysMgr) writes:
>
>P.S. One strange omission (to my knowledge) from all the UNIX tools
>is a program, similar in command syntax (groan, but probably needed)
>to 'sort' which adds up columns of numbers:
>
>	sumcol +4.6 foo
>
>Strange, must have been written hundreds of times.
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>*End of UNIX-WIZARDS-REPLY-DIGEST-SORT-OF
>
>	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Awk is great for this.  Something like: awk '{sum += $4}\\
END {print sum}'
	-mark
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