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From: jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?
Summary: back to basics
Message-ID: <850@jonlab.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 90 07:36:45 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com> <1990Aug6.172225.20319@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Aug6.172225.20319@iwarp.intel.com>, merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
> 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 SCRIPT DELETED

A script of mine called "addcol" was printed in UNIX World's monthly
column Wizard's Grabbag and would do the same thing without perl;

	ls -ld | addcol -4

However, have we forgotten our roots?  I'm surprised in this thread
that no one has mentioned:

	TOTAL=`cat * | wc -c`

Jon

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