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my script changes form like every 20 min,
i was thinking along the lines of using awk to search for any files with '*' denoting an executable, and getting $2 from it, then somehow adding those...

thanks tommy,
but what i need is the total wc for all executables, not just how many there are

Hey guys,
need help writing a script which will display the total word count of all executables in the current directory. I believe awk is necessary but im unfamiliar with the command could someone...

the writeup doesnt mention anything about head, just says you may want to use pipe or sort. if its not possible to do without head, then how what is the syntax for that?

hey guys im rly new to unix. im attempting to list the 5 largest files in a directory.

so i got this far...

ls -lR | sort -r

and this lists all files by filesize, how can i limit this to...