Re: suming utility

[Marcin Cinik]

It is what I needed:

http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/

Thanks for the link,

Marcin

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:41 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Marcin Cinik wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I'm looking for the utility which could sum up numbers separated by
> > anything what is not a number from stdin or file. I needed such tool
> > very often and finally I've written one recently. It is not easy to
> > accomplish that using bc because it is hard to use when scripting (you
> > need to add '+' signs, there's a problem with '-', blank lines and it is
> > hard to force bc output to be as I want). My question is: Is there any
> > utility within coreutils which could suffice my needs ? If it is not, is
> > there any possibility to contribute my simple utility to coreutils ?
> > I know that maybe it is not right mailing list, but at this moment I
> > don't know the better one.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Marcin Cinik
> 
> I'm not sure such a utility fits with coreutils
> (though I have required the functionality many times myself).
> Here are some pointers:
> 
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/funcpy
> http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/
> 
> Pádraig.