[PLUG] Simple question hoping for a simpler answer
David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com
Sat Apr 22 13:52:29 UTC 2006
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Moore wrote:
> Hi all This may seem to be a little simplistic and rudimentary but I
> am trying to learn some of the basics. Anyway my question is how
> would all of you(without creating a script) add together the values
> of multiple lines from a command like: grep -c bin * | cut -d: -f 2 I
> was hoping that there was a very core and basic unix or gnu app that
> you can pipe the results of that string too in order to get a
> complete total of all the lines.
grep -c bin * | awk -F: '{ total += $2 } END { print total }'
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David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com
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