Question

I can’t seem find an awk solution for this simple task. I can easily sum a column ($3) based on one matching field ($1) with :

awk -F, '{array[$1]+=$3} END { for (i in array) {print i"," array[i]}}' datas.csv

Now, how can I do that based on two fields ? Lets say $1 and $2 ? Here is a sample datas :

P1,gram,10  
P1,tree,12  
P1,gram,34  
P2,gram,23  
...

I simply need to sum column 3 if first and second fields match.

Thanx for any help !

Answer 1

Like so

awk -F, '{array[$1","$2]+=$3} END { for (i in array) {print i"," array[i]}}' datas.csv

My result

P1,tree,12
P1,gram,44
P2,gram,23

EDIT

As the OP needs the commas to remain in the output, I edited the answer above using @yi_H’s “comma fix”.