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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.172225.20319@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 6 Aug 90 17:22:25 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com>
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In-Reply-To: aab@silma.com (Andy Burgess)

In article <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com>, aab@silma (Andy Burgess) writes:
| While you're at it, is there a better way to get the total bytes
| of the files in a directory?

perl -e 'for(@ARGV){$x += (stat($_))[7];} print "$x bytes\n";' *

and soon (after the next patch):

perl -e 'for(@ARGV){$x += -s;} print "$x bytes\n";' *

Just another Perl hacker,
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