[Solved] Using awk withing a shell script

UNIX Solaris
1

I am trying to use an awk command within a ksh script but it is not working - I am able to run from command line with no problem. It does not err out - it just does not produce a file with final count.

awk "{s+=$0} END {print s}" es.out > es.cnt

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

2

Replace double quotes " with single quotes '

awk '{s+=$0} END {print s}' es.out
3

I tried that just now - same result.

4

Show the input you have and the output you want.

5

The input is a file with a different number on each line (es.out) - I want to add the numbers for a total in the output file (es.cnt)

Input - 
 
      252
       428
      1174
        12
        29
       539
        35
        12
        30
         7
         6
         3
         5

 
Output - 
 
2532
6

Works fine here, but try $1 instead of $0. Maybe your version of awk refuses to add numbers with whitespace in front of them.

7

Works perfectly now! Thank you so much!!!