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sum of more than 1 column

Hi

I want to sum of 3 columns in file.

Example: I want to sum of 3 ,6,8 th columns in file(SUM(3,6,8)).

Using awk can sum of single column

awk '{a+=$3} END {printf ("%f\n",a)' file_name

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