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[SOLVED] awk adding counts together from column

Hello

Im new treat me nicely, I have a headache

I have a script that seemed to work now it doesnt anyway, the last part is adding counts of unique items in a csv file eg

Code:

05492U34         38
05492U34         47

two columns, (many different values like this in file)

i want the output as in another file

Code:

05492U34         85

I have tried this but seem to have issues

Code:

awk -F, '{a[$1]+=$2;}END{for (i in a)print i ";" a[i];}' file.csv > file1.csv

any help appreciated for this dummy

thanks paul

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