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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk to add selected row column data Post 302613177 by Ironguru on Monday 26th of March 2012 11:10:24 PM
Old 03-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
awk -F '-'  '$3==15 {sum+=$2}  END{ print sum}'  randomfile

Code:
cut -d ":" -f 2-3 works_on > temp.txt
awk -F ':'  '$3==$var3 {sum+=$2}  END{ print "Total : sum}' temp.txt

since 15 can change then it would have to be a variable. $3 is the 3rd column correct?

I get the error
"awk: line 1: runaway string constant"
 

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