Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by Shell_Life

Xramm,
According to what you said, you are looking for:
1) Search for a pattern into a file name.
2) At the end, display the total size of all files with pattern in their name.
Based on your specification, here is one solution not having to read the
entire file to find how many characters it has -- very useful for large files.

Code:

typeset -i mSize
typeset -i mTotal=0
mPattern='core'
for mFile in `find . -type f -name "*${mPattern}*"`
do
  mSize=`ls -l $mFile | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f5`
  mTotal=${mTotal}+${mSize}
done
echo 'Total size of '$pattern' is '${mTotal}