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Adding A Bump of Numbers with Awk

ok, so i have a bunch of numbers in a file that i'd like to add up.

i dont know how to do it.

This is how far i've gotten:

Code:

echo "4 4 5 4 3 4 3 3 4 2 43 3 293 49 23" | sed 's/ / + /g' | awk -F" "

I dont want to use the expr command with this as i dont trust it. any advice?

thanks

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I would go with bc:

Code:

$ echo "4 4 5 4 3 4 3 3 4 2 43 3 293 49 23" | sed 's/ / + /g' | bc
447
$

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