On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:28:51PM -0600, Jay Hannah wrote:
> [SNIP]
>
> Let's see your alternate syntaxii, shell gurus :)
Using awk:
[olug ~]$ cat test
a,aa,1
b,bb,20
c,cc,3
d,dd,40
[olug ~]$ awk -F"," '{total += $3}; END{print total}' test
64
Phil