note PodMaster '<tt>[cpan://perldoc] [perlrun]</tt>' <blockquote> Command-interpreters on non-Unix systems have rather different ideas on quoting than Unix shells. You'll need to learn the special characters in your command-interpreter ("*", "\" and """ are common) and how to protect whitespace and these characters to run one-liners (see -e below). <p> On some systems, you may have to change single-quotes to double ones, which you must *not* do on Unix or Plan 9 systems. You might also have to change a single % to a %%. <p> For example: <code> # Unix perl -e 'print "Hello world\n"' # MS-DOS, etc. perl -e "print \"Hello world\n\"" # Macintosh print "Hello world\n" (then Run "Myscript" or Shift-Command-R) # VMS perl -e "print ""Hello world\n""" </code> The problem is that none of this is reliable... </blockquote> So you'd have to try something like <code> perl -ane " $total += $F[9]; END {print $total} " sem.log </code> [Writeup formatting tips] <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-107642"> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-107642"><p><table border=0 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td colspan=2 bgcolor="#FFF0FF"><small><font color="black"><a href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=MJD"><b><font color="#0F0FAA">MJD</font></b></a> <a href="http://www.perl.org/yapc/2002/movies/themovie/"><b><font color="#0F0FAA">says</font></b></a> "you <i>can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo</i><B>!</B>"</font></small></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 bgcolor="#FFE0FF"><small><font color="black">I run a Win32 PPM <a href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=162391"><b><font color="#0F0FAA">repository</font></b></a> for perl <a href="http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm"><b><font color="#0F0FAA">5.6.x</font></b></a> and <a href="http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8"><b><font color="#0F0FAA">5.8.x</font></b></a> -- I take requests (<a href="http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/README.html"><b><font color="#0F0FAA">README</font></b></a>).</font></small></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 bgcolor="#FFD0FF"><small><font color="black">** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.</font></small></td></tr></table></div></div> </div></div> 535643 535643