Hi,<br> I'm running a very simple awk to sum about 1.5 million rows with numbers. The command runs a couple a minutes and then i get the unix prompt back with no output.<br>Here's my script:<br>cat bal.lst¦awk '{s+=$1}end{print $s}'<br><br>where's the error?<br>Thanks.
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why am I not getting any output from awk?
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The "end" word must be capitalized and the<br>"s" variable cannot have the dollar sign<br>which would make it field(some big number<br>outside the limits of AWK).<br><br>Your code should look like:<br><br>cat bal.lst ¦ awk '{s+=$1}END{print s}'<br><br><br>Hope this helps you. <p>flogrr<br><a href=mailto:flogr@yahoo.com>flogr@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>
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