Need a quick one-liner

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hi everybody

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?

thanks,
joerg

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