[Solved] Using awk withing a shell script

bjdamon · #1 01-22-2013

I am trying to use an awk command within a ksh script but it is not working - I am able to run from command line with no problem. It does not err out - it just does not produce a file with final count.

Code:

awk "{s+=$0} END {print s}" es.out > es.cnt

Yoda · #2 01-22-2013

Replace double quotes " with single quotes '

Code:

awk '{s+=$0} END {print s}' es.out

bjdamon · #3 01-22-2013

I tried that just now - same result.

Corona688 · #4 01-22-2013

Show the input you have and the output you want.

bjdamon · #5 01-22-2013

The input is a file with a different number on each line (es.out) - I want to add the numbers for a total in the output file (es.cnt)

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Corona688 · #6 01-22-2013

Works fine here, but try $1 instead of $0. Maybe your version of awk refuses to add numbers with whitespace in front of them.

bjdamon · #7 01-22-2013

Works perfectly now! Thank you so much!!!

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