RE: [SLUG] addition using script file

[Craig Southeren]

The AWK script below will do this. Save it into a file called "addnums", make it executable with chmod +x, and run it with:   addnums datafn   where datafn in the name of the file with the data in it.     #!/bin/awk -f   NR == 3 {   num1 = $2; }   NR == 6 {   print $2 + num1;   exit; }      Regards,       Craig Southeren  -------------------------------------------  Equivalence - Home of FireDoor, MibMaster & PhonePatch  For Open Source H.323 - see http://www.openh323.org  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Web:   http://www.equival.com.au  Fax:   +61 2 4368 1395        Voice: +61 2 4368 2118 -----------------------------------------------------   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shrestha Sent: Friday, 7 January 2000 15:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] addition using script file Suppose there is a file, which contains:   a 12 b 14 g 9 p 58 d 25 t 18 w 32     The two fields are seperated by space. If we have to add all the numbers of second field using script file, it can be done using cut -d" " -f2 /file   Can any one help to write a script file which adds the number from third line to sixth line only.   Any help will be highly appreciated!!   Shre