On Friday 04 July 2003 14:49, Seneca wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > I have some data files in the following format:
> >
> > 1 2 3 4
> > 5 6 7 8
> > 9 10 11 12
> > 13 14 15 16
> > ...
> >
> > I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this
> > case). Any ideas?
>
> awk '{ sum += $2 ; print sum }' foo | tail -1
Yeah, that's it! Thank you
joerg
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