On Friday 04 July 2003 14:49, Seneca wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > I have some data files in the following format:
> >
> > 1   2       3       4
> > 5   6       7       8
> > 9   10      11      12
> > 13  14      15      16
> > ...
> >
> > I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this
> > case). Any ideas?
>
> awk '{ sum += $2 ; print sum }' foo | tail -1

Yeah, that's it! Thank you

joerg

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