Sum total in for loop

[ranjank]

Hi,

I ant to do sum total of file and redirect to another in another file.

For E.g

cat count
3
4
5
99
123

i want the total of count file and redirect it to say SUM file.

Any pointers on this will be helpfull.

Regards,
Ranjan.

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

Use awk this way :

awk '{S+=$1}END{print S}' /path/to/countfile > /tmp/SUM.file

 

[mrn]

total=0

cat $* |
while read line
do
echo "$total: $line"
(( total = $total + $line ))
done
echo "The Total is " $total

Mike

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