How Can I calculate the sum of a specific column using bash?

Question

I want to calculate the sum of a specific column using bash without using the print that specific column (I want to keep all the output columns of my pipeline and only sum o

Answer 1

awk '{sum+=$1;} END { print "Total of 1st Column:" sum }1' abc.t6RrMm 

Given a file like:

12 12 12 
1  1  1
2  2  1
0  1  2

Total of 1st Column is 15.