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
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