[Gllug] Sum trouble

[Tethys]

Richard Jones writes:

>The problem you'll have with all the methods suggested below is
>that they'll overflow at 2 or 4 GiB. (I assume you have a fair-
>sized amount of data being transferred?)

Because mine uses dc to do the addition, it won't overflow.
I admit it's more clumsy than some of the others, though.

As useful scripting tools go, dc rocks...

Tet

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