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Old 09-01-2008
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Am not sure whether I get the issue properly, but here is the code: I just assume that you will be taking the first and third fields from first line.

Code:
awk 'BEGIN {sum=0; } {if (NR==1){ var1=$1; var3=$3;}  sum += $2; } END { print var1" "sum" "var3 }' filename