Re: reading awk output into a buffer

2010-11-18 Thread Tim Chase
On 11/18/2010 05:39 PM, sc wrote: # sum last word { total += $NF } END { print total } that sums the last word of each line (if it's numeric), how can i feed it a range of lines and read the sum in after the end? reading the help it appeared i could enter :5,9r!awk -f ~/su

reading awk output into a buffer

2010-11-18 Thread sc
all-- if i have a simple awk script like # sum last word { total += $NF } END { print total } that sums the last word of each line (if it's numeric), how can i feed it a range of lines and read the sum in after the end? reading the help it appeared i could enter :5,9r!awk -f ~