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Asked: June 14, 20262026-06-14T14:09:24+00:00 2026-06-14T14:09:24+00:00

In my file I have following structure :- A | 12 | 10 B

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In my file I have following structure :-

A | 12 | 10
B | 90 | 112
C | 54 | 34

What I have to do is I have to add column 2 and column 3 and print the result with column 1.

output:-

A | 22
B | 202
C | 88

I retrieve the two columns but dont know how to add
What I did is :-
cut -d ' | ' -f3,5 myfile.txt
How to add those columns and display.

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    2026-06-14T14:09:25+00:00Added an answer on June 14, 2026 at 2:09 pm

    You can do this easily with awk.

    awk '{print $1," | ",($3+$5)'} myfile.txt
    wil work perhaps.

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