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From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?
Summary: A better (?) way.
Message-ID: <834@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 6 Aug 90 01:00:47 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com>
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In article <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com>, aab@silma.com (Andy Burgess) writes:

> ...
> 
> While you're at it, is there a better way to get the total bytes
> of the files in a directory?

You could try something like this:

ls -ld * | awk '{ sum+= $4 } END { print sum }'

It does a similar thing to what your script is supposed to do.

Hope this is of some interest to someone...

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