Re: [SLUG] Re: addition using script file

[Angus Lees]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:37:22PM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
>       #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
>       while (<>) {
>               $total += (split)[1] if ($. >= 3 and $. <= 6);
>       }
>       print "$total\n";


bah - the awk script would have run several times before perl could
even start up


expr 0 `sed -n '3,6s/^.*\([0-9]\+\)$/+ \1/p' < file`

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 - Gus
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