Awk question .

maas187 · 09-10-2009, 06:15 PM

HI to all.

I have a file that looks like this.

1.0,2.0
4.0,5.0
1.5,1.0

and so no .

i need to know how would i calculate this in AWK e.g.

1.0 X 2.0
4.0 X 5.0
1.5 X 1.0

and then
add the result ..... so multiply the numbers and add the result .

thank you very much

maas187 · 09-10-2009, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maas187

HI to all.

I have a file that looks like this.

1.0,2.0
4.0,5.0
1.5,1.0

and so no .

i need to know how would i calculate this in AWK e.g.

1.0 X 2.0
4.0 X 5.0
1.5 X 1.0

and then
add the result ..... so multiply the numbers and add the result .

thank you very much

Thank you guys already found it .

awk -F, '{s += $1*$2} END {print s}' file_list