AWK one liner – Getting Sum of a Column

The following AWK one liner that can be used to get sum of a column in a text file:

Here is the sample of file content:

cat file_size.txt

-rw——- 1 oracle oinstall 4096 Jun 8 18:24 file0000018500000001
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 19 Jun 14 13:33 file0000034c00000001
-rw——- 1 oracle oinstall 18 Jun 14 13:34 file0000035400000002
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 0 Jun 14 13:34 file0000035700000003
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 0 Jun 14 13:35 file0000036400000004
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle oinstall 0 Jun 26 15:30 file000051b700000001
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle oinstall 0 Jun 26 16:24 file000051c300000002
-rw——- 1 oracle oinstall 4096 Jun 28 13:22 file000051ca00000003
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle oinstall 0 Jun 28 13:37 file000051cf00000004
-rw——- 1 oracle oinstall 4096 Jun 28 13:44 file000051d600000005
AWK one liner to get the sum of column 5, i.e size of the file:


cat file_size.txt | awk '{ tot +=$5 } END {print tot }'
12325


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