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