Re: Need a quick one-liner

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 20030704124928.GC713@localhost>,
Seneca  <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> 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

Isn't that

	awk '{ sum += $2; } END { print sum }' foo

? Awk rocks ;)

Mike.