Summing file sizes

Alexander4444 · #1 12-01-2012

I was just curious about how to sum the total file size of a certain type of file. For instance:

Code:

$find . -name "*.aif"

bartus11 · #2 12-01-2012

Try:

Code:

find . -name "*.aif" -ls | awk '{s+=$7}END{print s/(1024*1024)" Mbytes"}'

Yoda · #3 12-01-2012

Code:

find . -name "*.aif" -exec ls -l {} \; | awk ' { s+=$5 } END { printf "%d bytes\n", s } '

Alexander4444 · #4 12-03-2012

Thanks for these explanations! They work excellently. I especially appreciate the nice formatting of the output in Mb.

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