What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?

[Frank P. Bresz]

In article <1990Aug14.171056.17982 at iwarp.intel.com> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:

>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,

	That would be fine if I had or wanted pearl.  I was under the
impression that Jon's addcol was an awk script (I think that's where the
original thread came from anway) in which the -# was the column you wanted
to add and it would magically add up the numbers in column 1 or 7 or
whatever column you wanted under argumentalized control instead of having
separate scripts for each possible set of columns you want to add.
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