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Old 12-01-2012
Summing file sizes
I was just curious about how to sum the total file size of a certain type of file. For instance:

Code:
$find . -name "*.aif"

will print out the paths to each .aif file. Instead of printing, how could one sum the total space used by all of the aif files? Thanks!
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Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-01-2012 at 08:49 AM..
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Old 12-01-2012
Try:
Code:
find . -name "*.aif" -ls | awk '{s+=$7}END{print s/(1024*1024)" Mbytes"}'

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Old 12-01-2012
Code:
find . -name "*.aif" -exec ls -l {} \; | awk ' { s+=$5 } END { printf "%d bytes\n", s } '

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Old 12-03-2012
Thanks!
Thanks for these explanations! They work excellently. I especially appreciate the nice formatting of the output in Mb.
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