[Gllug] Small shell script challenge

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:56:53PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> Using something like:
> 
> ls -lR dir | awk '{print $5}' | ....
> 
> I can get a list of numbers (actually including some blank
> lines). What's the quickest way to add up those numbers?

Use awk itself:

	ls -lR dir | awk '{tot += $5} END { printf "%d\n", tot }'

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