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+# `sumcol`
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+`sumcol` is a simple unix-style command-line tool for summing numbers from a
+column of text. It's a replacement for the tried and true Unix-isms, like `awk
+'{s += $3} END {print s}'` (prints the sum of the numbers in the third
+whitespace delimited column), without all the verbosity.