#!/bin/sh
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# Written by:
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# John L. Weatherwax                2006-06-01
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# email: wax@alum.mit.edu
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# Please send comments and especially bug reports to the
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awk -F "\t" '{ sum += $2 }; END {  print "Total number of items is", sum }' file1