What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <FPB.90Aug16005419 at ittc.ittc.wec.com>, fpb at ittc (Frank P. Bresz) writes:
| 	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.

Well, the script in awk is almost as easy:

... | awk '{ $x += $3 }
END { print $x }' |

who needs anything else?  (But in Perl you can write it in one line. :-)

Just another Perl hacker, more-or-less,
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