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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Shell script to calc sum of bytes used by files Post 96178 by matrixmadhan on Wednesday 18th of January 2006 09:59:35 AM
Old 01-18-2006
sum the 5th column of ls -l.

Code:
# !/usr/bin/ksh

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
dir="."
else
dir=$1
fi

tot=`ls -l $dir | awk -F" " 'BEGIN {sum=0} {sum+=$5} END {print sum}'`
echo "$tot bytes"

exit 0

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ns_bindsock

Ns_Sock(3aolserver)					   AOLserver Library Procedures 				       Ns_Sock(3aolserver)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Ns_BindSock,  Ns_GetSockAddr,  Ns_SockAccept,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect2,  Ns_SockBind, Ns_SockCloseLater, Ns_SockConnect,
       Ns_SockConnect2, Ns_SockListen, Ns_SockListenEx, Ns_SockPipe, Ns_SockSetBlocking, Ns_SockSetNonBlocking, Ns_SockStrError,  Ns_SockTimedCon-
       nect, Ns_SockTimedConnect2, ns_pipe, ns_sockpair - library procedures

SYNOPSIS

       #include "ns.h"

       Ns_BindSock(arg, arg)

       Ns_GetSockAddr(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAccept(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockBind(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockCloseLater(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListen(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListenEx(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockPipe(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetNonBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockStrError(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect2(arg, arg)

       ns_pipe(arg, arg)

       ns_sockpair(arg, arg)
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       These functions ...

SEE ALSO

       nsd(1), info(n)

KEYWORDS

AOLserver								4.0						       Ns_Sock(3aolserver)
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