Hi,

I am using the following code to find the sum of the values of column 286 in a file. It will have the Decimal values with the scale of 2. Delimiter is '|^'

cut -d'|^' -f286 filename|cut -c3-| awk '{ x += $1 } END { printf("%.2f\n", x) }'

awk F"|^" '{ x += $256 } END { printf("%.2f\n", x) }' filename

Are you sure about the field delimiter? When using your above code, GNU cut tells me cut: the delimiter must be a single character

The other cut which I have here says: cut: bad delimiter