05-15-2006
Try a bit of awk
burakkilic,
I normally use awk for this kind of problem - it works effectively
awk '{tot+=$1} END{print tot}' numbers.txt
Alternatively, change your script as shown:
#!/bin/sh
sum=0
for i in `cat numbers.txt |cut -f1`
do
sum=`expr $sum + $i` # Add back quotes around the expr
done
echo $sum
Steve
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SUM(1) User Commands SUM(1)
NAME
sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file
SYNOPSIS
sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print checksum and block counts for each FILE.
-r use BSD sum algorithm, use 1K blocks
-s, --sysv
use System V sum algorithm, use 512 bytes blocks
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by Kayvan Aghaiepour and David MacKenzie.
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Report sum bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sum programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'sum invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 SUM(1)