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Old 05-15-2006
burakkilic burakkilic is offline
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Problems with sum operation

i wrote this code..

#!/bin/sh
sum=0
for i in `cat numbers.txt |cut -f1`
do
sum=expr $sum + $i
done
echo $sum


I want to read the numbers in the file numbers.txt. and find sum of them. But this code only writes the numbers(without making sum) that it reads. Help me..