hrm.. seems like you were missing a } sort file | awk '{array[$1] += $2;} END { for (i in array) {print i "\t" array[i];}}' regards, Jason On 10/25/2017 01:24 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> On Oct 25, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net> wrote: >>> I have a file with two columns 'email' and 'total' like this: >>> >>> me at example.com 20 >>> me at example.com 40 >>> you at domain.com 100 >>> you at domain.com 30 >>> >>> I need to get the total number of messages for each email address. >> This screams out for associative arrays. (Also called hashes, >> dictionaries, maps, etc.) >> >> That does limit you to CentOS 7+, or maybe 6+, as I recall. CentOS 5 is >> definitely out, as that ships Bash 3, which lacks this feature. > <snip> > Associative arrays? > > Awk! Awk! (No, I am not a seagull...) > > sort file | awk '{ array[$1] += $2;} END { for (i in array) { print i "\t" > array[i];}' > > mark "associative arrays, how do I love thee? Let me tot the arrays..." > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos