[Gllug] Sum trouble

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:12:04AM +0100, Leigh Mason wrote:
> Good morning all
> 
> I am trying to calculate the total sum of bytes listed in the apache 
> access_log.
> I have retrieved the particular column which gives me a list of byte 
> values thus:
> cut -f10 -d" " access_log
> 
> I can't seem to find any text type utility that will sum these values.
> What would be the usual procedure to achieve this?

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?)

AFAIK you're stuck with writing a C program using 'long long' or
using a language with bignum support.

Rich.

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