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Old 01-22-2013
[Solved] Using awk withing a shell script

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

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Last edited by radoulov; 01-22-2013 at 06:17 PM.. Reason: Marked as solved.
# 2  
Old 01-22-2013
Replace double quotes " with single quotes '
Code:
awk '{s+=$0} END {print s}' es.out

# 3  
Old 01-22-2013
I tried that just now - same result.
# 4  
Old 01-22-2013
Show the input you have and the output you want.
# 5  
Old 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)

HTML Code:
Input - 
 
      252
       428
      1174
        12
        29
       539
        35
        12
        30
         7
         6
         3
         5

 
Output - 
 
2532
# 6  
Old 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.
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Old 01-22-2013
Works perfectly now! Thank you so much!!!
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