[PLUG] Adding numbers

[Mark Martin]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:19 am, Sean Whitney wrote:
> I'm grepping through some log files for some numbers.
>
> What can I do to total the values and print that out....  I'm sure there
> is a simple solution, it's just escaping me right now...
>
>
> Sean

Brute force:

[mark at caprice mark]$ sum=0; for n in `grep missing messages*|awk '{print 
$7}'`; do let 'sum = sum + n'; done; echo $sum

Must have the last command, i.e. echo $sum, on the same line as the "done" 
statement.

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