[ale] Shell script

[esoteric at atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

How about perl? Assuming you have one entry per line:

cat fileonumbers |
	perl -ne 'BEGIN { my $total=0;} {$total +=$_;}END {print $total;}'

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