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# 8  
Old 04-30-2006
not sure
may be you could write a C program to do the summing up. That may be faster.
# 9  
Old 05-01-2006
Change your original code...
Code:
total=`awk '{tot=tot+$1} END {print tot}' "$filename"`

...to...
Code:
total=`awk '{tot=tot+$1} END {printf "%d", tot}' "$filename"`

# 10  
Old 05-01-2006
Thanks a lot for your responses ,the script worked with :
total=`awk '{tot=tot+$1} END {printf "%d", tot}' "$filename"`
It even worked with the FOR loop,but because of the hig volume (about 28MB),the for loop was taking forever (i verified the script with a smaller file)
Thanks a lot
Anu
 
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