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Using numsum to sum a column of numbers.

Terminal - Using numsum to sum a column of numbers.
echo $(( $( cat count.txt | tr "\n" "+" | xargs -I{} echo {} 0 ) ))
2010-01-27 10:02:30
User: glaudiston
Functions: cat echo tr xargs
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Using numsum to sum a column of numbers.

if you, like me, do not have the numsum, this way can do the same.

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cat count.txt | awk '{ sum+=$1} END {print sum}'
2009-03-16 00:22:13
User: duxklr
Functions: awk cat
Tags: awk
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Using awk to sum/count a column of numbers.

Takes a input file (count.txt) that looks like:

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It will add/sum the first column of numbers.

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numsum count.txt
2010-01-26 21:53:18
User: deltaray
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Using numsum to sum a column of numbers.

numsum is part of of the num-utils package, which is available in some Linux distros and can also be downloaded at http://suso.suso.org/xulu/Num-utils. It contains about 10 different programs for dealing with numbers from the command line.

Obviously you can do a lot of things that the num-utils programs do in awk, sed, bash, perl scripts, but num-utils are there so that you don't have to remember the syntax for more complex operations and can just think: compute the sum, average, boundary numbers, etc.

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xargs is mega redundant.

echo $(($(seq 1000000 | tr "\n" "+"; echo 0)))
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