Top Unix Command Line Utilities

Re:Top Unix Command Line Utilities by zxcdw on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:04AM (#4986054)

I am not familiar with awk, what's the 's+= $7'? What is the argument 2 passed to wc? Why is the produced output different? What am I missing here?

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Re:Top Unix Command Line Utilities by coldgrnd on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:17AM (#4986109)

s += $7 means "add the content of the 7th column to the total"

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Re:Top Unix Command Line Utilities by zxcdw on Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:55PM (#4986696)

Makes sense, thanks!

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