What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <FPB.90Aug13191108 at ittc.ittc.wec.com>, fpb at ittc (Frank P. Bresz) writes:
| >or if you have Jon's addcol, even simpler:
| 
| >    stat -s * | addcol -2
| 
| 	Where is Jon's addcol.  I tried to write one a while back and kept
| screwing it up.  I would like to see a working version.

for addcol -1, try:

	perl -ane '$s += $F[0]; print "$s\n" if eof;'

for addcol -2:

	perl -ane '$s += $F[1]; print "$s\n" if eof;'

Others may be derived by noticing the pattern. :-)

Just another Perl hacker,
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