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Old 06-07-2010
du to print some of output
The output of
Code:
du -b file* | awk '{print $1}'

is:
Code:
1501090
1500538

I want the result to be a sum of this column. ie the o/p should be
Code:
3001628

Any idea?
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-08-2010 at 05:15 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 06-07-2010
Hi.

My du doesn't have the -b option, but if it did...

Code:
du -b file* | awk '{X+=$1} END {print X}'

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# 3  
Old 06-07-2010
wow....great....it works.....thanks a lot
# 4  
Old 06-07-2010
Check if your du command has the -c option.
-c Display a grand total.
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