Combine results of column one Then sum column 2 to list total for each entry in column one

Question

I am bit of Bash newbie, so please bear with me here.

I have a text file dumped by another software (that I have no control over) listing each user with number of ti

Answer 1

Pure Bash:

declare -A result                 # an associative array

while read name value; do
  ((result[$name]+=value))
done < "$infile"

for name in ${!result[*]}; do
  printf  "%-10s%10d\n"  $name  ${result[$name]}
done

If the first 'done' has no redirection from an input file this script can be used with a pipe:

your_program | ./script.sh

and sorting the output

your_program | ./script.sh | sort

The output:

Bob              219
Richard          142
Jim              245
Mark             190
John             208
Sean             201