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Don't worry
You can just change it into:

Code:

find . -type d -name kk -exec du -sk {} \; | awk '{count+=$1; print}END {print "Total:  ",count,"kb"}'

grial /All

I know the first will do the recrusive listing and search and an you please explain tha AWK part.........

Thanks in advance,
Arun.

Sure!

Code:

... awk '{count+=$1; print}END {print "Total:  ",count,"kb"}'

I'm not an awk expert but here we go!
"count" is where the size is going to be contained.
In the first {}, for each line (result of du), count will increment by adding the first field value, represented by $1 (by default fields are separated by spaces and/or tabs). In this case, the first field is the size of the folder. And print the whole line.
Finally, in the second {}, the result is shown.
Regards.

Hello grial

The cmd was giving desired o/p just fine but in one case it gave the following o/p due to large size of the folders

Total size 6.83465e+07 KB

Now how do i change the count variable type to double or equivallent to store large value.

Thanks again

man awk (I'm sorry but I do not know)
Anyway, what's the problem?
Just multiply 6.83465 x 10000000

ok no problem this will do too

Grial thanks for your explanation and very great of you .. Please let me know why we are using print here "{count+=$1; print}" . please let me know the use of print here if we didnt use print here is it right ?? .Let me know ,also with that i am new to AWK...

Thanks in advance,
Arun kumar