hi,

i am having one file which looks like the one below:

ABC1
***
1
4

ABC2
***
7
12

ABC3
***
0
34

...

i want to add the two numbers below each ABC and i want to find the largest out of this..

for example: in this case, 0+34=34 is the largest value and i want to get the result ABC3 into a variable.

can anyone help me...

thanks,
Krips.

There are cleaner ways....but this should work:

#  cat infile
ABC1
***
1
4

ABC2
***
7
12

ABC3
***
0
34


#  <infile paste - - - - - | awk '{print $3+$4,$1}' | sort -nr | sed q
34 ABC3

OR
#  <infile paste - - - - - | awk '{print $3+$4,$1}' | sort -nr | sed q | cut -d" " -f2
ABC3

Something like this:

v=$(awk 'END { print v }
($3 + $4) > m {
  m = $3 + $4
  v = $1
  }' RS= file)

Hi

I am trying to add count values from two different files into one file. Could any body please suggest me best command to do this? My problem was as follows:

a.txt b.txt c.txt
10 20 30(needed)

i tried cat a.txt b.txt > c.txt (its not adding the values)


Thanks in advance..
Praveen

npk2210, if you are talking about adding the line count of the files this will work.

#!/bin/ksh

one=`wc -l a.txt|awk '{print $1}'`
two=`wc -l b.txt|awk '{print $1}'`

echo "$one $two" |awk '{sum=($1 + $2 ); print sum}' > c.txt

if your not wanting lines try man wc and see the options you have, hope this was what you were talking about.