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Old 07-25-2006
add numbers in shell script
cat dailyreports | grep "Important list" | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | awk -F" " '{print $1}'

hey guys, after running the above combination of cat and awk, i get the below output:

3
4
2
9

now, i need to add these numbers up all in one line. i dont know what to add to that cat and awk one liner to accomplish this addition. can someone please help me? thanks
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# 2  
Old 07-25-2006
Try
Code:
awk -F":" '/Important list/ {print $2}' dailyreports | awk '{print $1}'|while read w
do
   line="${line}${w}"
done

echo ${line}

Or in awk:
Code:
awk '
BEGIN {FS=":"}
{
	if ( $0 ~ /Important list/ )
		c=substr($2,1,1)c
}
END {print c} ' dailyreports

Last edited by Klashxx; 07-25-2006 at 09:35 AM..
# 3  
Old 07-25-2006
or
Code:
grep "Important list" dailyreports| awk -F":" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}'| while read l; do echo -e "$l \c"; done

Which is almost the same Klashxx says in his first example Smilie
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