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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers awk adding counts together from column Post 302847331 by mjf on Monday 26th of August 2013 07:54:27 PM
Old 08-26-2013
I notice a couple of things:

1. From your input file, you don't need the field separator.
2. From your output file, you don't need the ";" in the print statement, just replace with a comma.
3. The sum of the amounts in column 2 on your input file don't match the total in your output file.
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Print byte, word, and newline counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -c, --bytes print the byte counts -m, --chars print the character counts -l, --lines print the newline counts -L, --max-line-length print the length of the longest line -w, --words print the word counts --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
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