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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sum(col) finding from a file Post 302188287 by ksmbabu on Wednesday 23rd of April 2008 05:43:45 AM
Old 04-23-2008
USSR|8650|262|Asia
Canada|3852|24|North America
China|3692|866|Asia
USA|3615|219|North America
Brazil|3286|116|South America
India|1269|637|Asia
Argentina|1072|26|South America
Sudan|968|19|Africa
Algeria|920|18|Africa
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FILE=/path/a.sh
area=0
total=0

for area in `awk -F'|' '{print $2}' $FILE`
do
total=$(($total+$area))
done
echo $total

to my above shell scripts is working fine for one sum(column). How to use more than one col for sum ie $2 and $3 i want the sum

Thanks
Babu
 

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