how to sum particular field in text file
i am having text file like
222|4000|abc
333|5000|xyz
444|6000|mno
i want sum of second field
i.e 4000+5000+6000
can u pls help
awk -F'|' '{s+=$2}END{print s}' infile
total=0
while IFS="|" read a b c
do
total=$(( total+b ))
done < "file"
echo $total
The following way we can achieve your requirement
sample file:
1 2
4 5
7 8
required output:
1+2 = 3
4+5 = 9
7+8 = 15
Sample Code:
cut -d ' ' -f 1,2 one | sed -n '1,$p' | sed 's/[ ]/+/'| bc