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# 1  
Old 05-01-2008
bc
i have a filename contain:

123
1234
12345

i can use bc 123+1234+12345 = 13702, but can i use while loop ?

cat filename | while read line
do
not sure in this statement ?

done
# 2  
Old 05-01-2008
never mind, i can use this from this helpful site.

echo `sed -e 's/$/+/' myFile.txt` 0 | bc
# 3  
Old 05-01-2008
one draw back about this syntax is, i can not use it when the content of the file (# of lines in the file) more than 500 lines, it created core dump.

split -l 500 myFile.txt and use this output one at the time, work fine.

is it away to not split the file to do this ?
# 4  
Old 05-01-2008
Code:
nawk '{s+=$0} END {print s}' filename

# 5  
Old 05-01-2008
thanks, that works well. i am very new to scripting or commands such sed, awk, nawk, grep. so far, this site is pushing pass my bed time. people who are member of this site are ROCK!
 
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