Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 00:00:52 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 693

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Saturday 06 May 2006
 Number  693
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Subjects for today
 
1   Adding numbers automatically : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
2  Re:  Adding numbers automatically : Lyn St George" <lyn at zolotek.net>
3  Re:  Adding numbers automatically : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
4   ux2bs list : Brendan Oakley" <gentux2 at gmail.com>
5  Re:  ux2bs list : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
6  Re:  Adding numbers automatically : Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
7  Re:  Adding numbers automatically : Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
8  Re:  ux2bs list : IanM" <IanM>
9  Re:  ux2bs list : IanM" <IanM>
10  Re:  ux2bs list : Brendan Oakley" <gentux2 at gmail.com>
11   m4 1.4.4 : Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= <andreas.buening at nexgo.de>


**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 5 May 2006 15:44:26 +0100
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:   Adding numbers automatically

If I have a file with a column of figures, how do I total them up 
automatically?

I guess there is some Unix util which can do this... possible bc but I 
can't figure out how to do it.

Any suggestions?

-- 
John




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Date:  Fri, 05 May 2006 17:17:34 +0100 (BST)
From:  "Lyn St George" <lyn at zolotek.net>
Subject:  Re:  Adding numbers automatically

On Fri, 5 May 2006 15:44:26 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:

>If I have a file with a column of figures, how do I total them up 
>automatically?
>
>I guess there is some Unix util which can do this... possible bc but I 
>can't figure out how to do it.
>
>Any suggestions?

Would it be overkill to load the file into a MySQL database and do:
select sum(column_name) from table_name;

or load it into a spreadsheet and sum the column?

Also found this solution in a page of interesting tips:
http://structbio.vanderbilt.edu/chazin/wisdom/ketchemr_unix.html
and this for 'cut':
http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/cut.shtml


>-- 
>John
>
>
>
>


-
Lyn



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Date:  Fri, 5 May 2006 17:35:04 +0100
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  Adding numbers automatically

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:17:34PM +0100, Lyn St George wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2006 15:44:26 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> >If I have a file with a column of figures, how do I total them up 
> >automatically?
> >
> >I guess there is some Unix util which can do this... possible bc but I 
> >can't figure out how to do it.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> 
> Would it be overkill to load the file into a MySQL database and do:
> select sum(column_name) from table_name;
> 
> or load it into a spreadsheet and sum the column?

That does seem a bit OTT.

I'd probably be able to do it with one line of AWK...
 
> -
> Lyn
> 

-- 
John



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Date:  Fri, 5 May 2006 10:24:40 -0700
From:  "Brendan Oakley" <gentux2 at gmail.com>
Subject:   ux2bs list

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Hi.

Is there an issue with the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to
list-request at unixos2.com with a subject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and didn't get
anything back.

Brendan

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Hi.<br>
<br>
Is there an issue with the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to <a href=
=3D"mailto:list-request at unixos2.com" target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return to=
p.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">list-request at unixos2.com</a> with a su=
bject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and didn't get anything back.
<br>
<br>
Brendan<br>

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**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 5 May 2006 18:35:06 +0100
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  ux2bs list

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:24:40AM -0700, Brendan Oakley wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Is there an issue with the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to
> list-request at unixos2.com with a subject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and didn't get
> anything back.

It isn't one that I host...
 
Is Ian around?

> Brendan

-- 
John



**= Email   6 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 05 May 2006 11:17:56 -0700
From:  "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
Subject:  Re:  Adding numbers automatically

In <20060505161439.7105629472D at mailserver1.zolotek.net>, on 05/05/06
   at 05:17 PM, "Lyn St George" <lyn at zolotek.net> said:

>Would it be overkill to load the file into a MySQL database and do:
>select sum(column_name) from table_name;

>or load it into a spreadsheet and sum the column?

>http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/cut.shtml

Dunno. :-)  There's always the perl one-liner

 perl -wne "$a+=$_;END { print $a ;}" <file_of_numbers

Regards,

Steven

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Date:  Fri, 05 May 2006 12:12:08 -0700
From:  "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
Subject:  Re:  Adding numbers automatically

In <20060505173504.B46 at warpix.org>, on 05/05/06
   at 05:35 PM, John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> said:


>I'd probably be able to do it with one line of AWK...

Or one line of shell script

  b=0; while read a;do b=$(expr $b + $a );done <tmp.in ; echo $b

FWIW, this does not work with bash 2.05a.  The read command fails after
the 1st read.  I had to backlevel to 2.03.

Regards,

Steven

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**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 06 May 2006 09:57:35 +1000 (EST)
From:  "IanM" <IanM>
Subject:  Re:  ux2bs list

Hi Brendan and John

Very groggy eyed but I'm around, I'll go and check.

>> Hi.
>> 
>> Is there an issue with the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to
>> list-request at unixos2.com with a subject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and didn't get
>> anything back.
>
>It isn't one that I host...
> 
>Is Ian around?
>

Cheers
IanM
http://www.os2site.com/

"One World; One Web; One Program."  -- Microsoft  "Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ein Fuhrer."  -- Hitler


**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 06 May 2006 10:24:22 +1000 (EST)
From:  "IanM" <IanM>
Subject:  Re:  ux2bs list

ok, list-request is working again, very wierd, had to reenter the pw
again before it would work, no error messages at all.

Wierd
On Sat, 06 May 2006 09:57:35 +1000 (EST), IanM wrote:

>Hi Brendan and John
>
>Very groggy eyed but I'm around, I'll go and check.
>
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> Is there an issue with the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to
>>> list-request at unixos2.com with a subject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and didn't get
>>> anything back.
>>
>>It isn't one that I host...
>> 
>>Is Ian around?
>>
>
>Cheers
>IanM
>http://www.os2site.com/
>
>"One World; One Web; One Program."  -- Microsoft  "Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ein Fuhrer."  -- 
Hitler

Cheers
IanM
http://www.os2site.com/

"User error. Replace user and press any key..."


**= Email   10 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 5 May 2006 21:06:49 -0700
From:  "Brendan Oakley" <gentux2 at gmail.com>
Subject:  Re:  ux2bs list

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Thanks, it worked for me now.

On 5/5/06, IanM <IanM> wrote:
>
> ok, list-request is working again, very wierd, had to reenter the pw
> again before it would work, no error messages at all.
>
> Wierd
> On Sat, 06 May 2006 09:57:35 +1000 (EST), IanM wrote:
>
> >Hi Brendan and John
> >
> >Very groggy eyed but I'm around, I'll go and check.
> >
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> Is there an issue with the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to
> >>> list-request at unixos2.com with a subject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and
> didn't get
> >>> anything back.
> >>
> >>It isn't one that I host...
> >>
> >>Is Ian around?
> >>
> >
> >Cheers
> >IanM
> >http://www.os2site.com/
> >
> >"One World; One Web; One Program."  -- Microsoft  "Ein Volk; Ein Reich;
> Ein Fuhrer."  --
> Hitler
>
> Cheers
> IanM
> http://www.os2site.com/
>
> "User error. Replace user and press any key..."
>
>

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Thanks, it worked for me now.<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 5/=
5/06, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">IanM</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:i=
an at os2site.com">IanM</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"g=
mail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt=
 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ok, list-request is working again, very wierd, had to reenter the pw<br>aga=
in before it would work, no error messages at all.<br><br>Wierd<br>On Sat, =
06 May 2006 09:57:35 +1000 (EST), IanM wrote:<br><br>&gt;Hi Brendan =
and John
<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Very groggy eyed but I'm around, I'll go and check.<br>&gt;=
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Hi.<br>&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Is there an issue with=
 the ux2bs mailing list? I sent an email to<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=3D"mail=
to:list-request at unixos2.com">
list-request at unixos2.com</a> with a subject of 'subscribe ux2bs' and didn't=
 get<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; anything back.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;It isn't one tha=
t I host...<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;Is Ian around?<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;<br>
&gt;Cheers<br>&gt;IanM<br>&gt;<a href=3D"http://www.os2site.com/">ht=
tp://www.os2site.com/</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt;&quot;One World; One Web; One Prog=
ram.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;-- Microsoft&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ei=
n Fuhrer.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;--
<br>Hitler<br><br>Cheers<br>IanM<br><a href=3D"http://www.os2site.co=
m/">http://www.os2site.com/</a><br><br>&quot;User error. Replace user and p=
ress any key...&quot;<br><br></blockquote></div><br>

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**= Email   11 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 06 May 2006 14:13:44 +0200
From:  Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= <andreas.buening at nexgo.de>
Subject:   m4 1.4.4

Hello!

I've just uploaded GNU m4 1.4.4: See
http://unixos2.com/pub/binary/m4/m4-1.4.4-bin.zip for the binaries,
and http://unixos2.com/pub/source/m4/m4-1.4.4.zip for the sources.

m4 is a tool required by autoconf. Version 1.4.4 will be required for
the upcoming autoconf 2.60 but won't need it before that happens.


Bye,
Andreas