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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Test argument error, unable to solve Post 302447506 by zaxxon on Monday 23rd of August 2010 11:11:58 AM
Old 08-23-2010
@pravin27:
Thanks for pointing out the missing $.

@pravsripad:
That single line of code works; maybe you got a syntax problem?
Code:
echo "1,5,N/A,10,4"| awk  -F"," '{ for(i=1; i<=NF ; ++i) { if ($i !~ /N\/A/) {sum += $i}}} END{print sum}'
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