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  From: justin@tardis.mx.com.au
  To  : Gaelyne Gasson <gaelyne@videocam.net.au>
  Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 20:14:01 +0930 (CST)

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Sat, 1 May 1999, Gaelyne Gasson wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> 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?

I love these things!!!

The gawk way:

   cat numbers | gawk '{ total += $1} END {print total }'

The perl way:

   cat numbers | perl -e 'while (<>) { $total += $_} ; print "$total\n";'

The C way:

   Nah.....

I'm sure my perl one can be optimized heaps - I want to learn more about
writing those one line perl scripts.

	- Justin

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