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From: dhesi@sunscreen.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: Can ls show total Kbytes of "foo*"?
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Date: 30 Oct 89 00:59:11 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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I use shell scripts called "bytes" and "blocks".  They are:

bytes:
   /bin/ls -l $* | awk '{sum = sum + $4} END {print sum}'

blocks:
   du -s $* | awk '{total += $1} END {print total}'

(System V users may need to adjust the field number in the first one.)

The "blocks" script gives me total blocks used by specified files and
directory subtrees.

Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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