addcol - # [Was: Re: What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?]

[Frank P. Bresz]

In article <416 at necssd.NEC.COM> harrison at necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison) writes:
>Here is a simple one in awk.  Replace $4 with your column number.
>		awk '{ tot += $4} END{print tot}'
>			      ^^
>If you put this into a shell script called addcol, you can say
>		awk '{ tot += $'$1'} END{print tot}'
>and invoke it by
>		addcol 4
>Example:  How many bytes in my files?
>		ls -l c* | awk '{ tot += $4} END{print tot}'
>		ls -l c* | addcol 4

>Hope this helps!

	It is EXACTLY what I was looking for.  Thank you very much for
weeding through and figuring out what I really wanted.!!
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