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

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Package: moreutils; Maintainer for moreutils is Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>; Source for moreutils is src:moreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:48:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version moreutils/0.47

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From: Joey Hess <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#682875: Include "add" to sum up input
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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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