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Old 02-07-2007
sbasetty sbasetty is offline
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Summing on column
Hi Friends

How to do sum on a column?
I have a file like:

FRED 500.01 TX
SMITH 50.10 NY
HARRY 5.00 CA

555.11

Sum on second column.

I am trying using nawk like

nawk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}; {printf $1"+"}'

Thanks a lot for your help

S