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Old 01-18-2006
Shell script to calc sum of bytes used by files

I'm looking to create a Korn Shell script that, if given a directory as an arg, will calc bytes used by all files in the given directory and display that info. If no command line arg is given the program is to calc and display the bytes used by all the files in the pwd.

Example output:

/export/home/me> ./filesizes /export/home
6325832


Thanks...
# 2  
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

# 3  
Old 01-18-2006
#!/usr/bin/ksh

ls -l $1 | awk 'BEGIN { FS=" "; sm=0; } { sm = sm + $5 } END { print "Total bytes : "sm; }'



this will take care of what you have asked...
if $1 contains value, then it will calculate for givent directory
if $0 contains nothing, then it will calculate for current directory
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Old 01-18-2006
Thank you both. Very much appreciated.
 
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