On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> 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?
awk '{ x += $2 } END { print x }' < file
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]