$ for file in *.count ; do echo -n "$file: " ; awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }' $file ; done 2010.txt.count: 301 2011.txt.count: 2214 2012.txt.count: 1472 2013.txt.count: 916 2014.txt.count: 1015 2015.txt.count: 918 2016.txt.count: 661 2017.txt.count: 766 2018.txt.count: 791 2019.txt.count: 838 2020.txt.count: 1091 2021.txt.count: 986 2022.txt.count: 863 2023.txt.count: 579 2024.txt.count: 468