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  From: Dieter Jansen <dieter@tplex.com.au>
  To  : Gaelyne Gasson" <gaelyne@videocam.net.au>, <gaelyne@videocam.net.au>
  Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 19:40:19 +0930

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hi Gaelyne,

>I have a list of numbers in a file (one number per line).  What's an
>easy way via a script file of adding them up to find the sum of the
>file?

  awk '{sum+=$0} END {print sum}' < file

Cheers, Dieter.

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Dieter Jansen                                   Tetraplex Pty Ltd
dieter@tplex.com.au                      http://www.tplex.com.au/



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