Debian Bug report logs - #682875
Include "add" to sum up input

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From: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: Include "add" to sum up input

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:45:13 +0200

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Package: moreutils
Version: 0.47
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I've often wondered why there is no equivalent to "wc" which counts
input byte that will simply add up the numbers it gets fed. Examples
would be adding up file sizes, "wc -l" output, or whatever numbers
some shell pipe produces.

The attached "add" program is trivial (I don't even claim any
copyrightable content), but useful.

Please consider including it in moreutils.

Christoph
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Message #8 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <[email protected]>

To: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#682875: Include "add" to sum up input

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:24:06 -0400

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Christoph Berg wrote:
> I've often wondered why there is no equivalent to "wc" which counts
> input byte that will simply add up the numbers it gets fed. Examples
> would be adding up file sizes, "wc -l" output, or whatever numbers
> some shell pipe produces.
> 
> The attached "add" program is trivial (I don't even claim any
> copyrightable content), but useful.

I'd rather see num-utils get packaged by some interested person.
http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/

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Message #11 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>

To: Joey Hess <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#682875: Include "add" to sum up input

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:05:57 +0200

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Re: Joey Hess 2012-07-26 <[email protected]>
> I'd rather see num-utils get packaged by some interested person.
> http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/

Point taken.

The idea was to have it included in some package I could expect to be
installed on all systems. num-utils already sounds too specific to
have it everywhere by default.

Christoph
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