Sum size of files returned from FIND

find [path] [expression] -exec du -ab {} \; | awk '{total+=$0}END{print total}'

By: rehanift

2009-09-24 17:50:26

awk du find

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Sum size of files returned from FIND

Just an alternative. Here the output of the subshell statement is a complete script for dc so you can save it, manipulate it with some other tool or just debug it with less.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

(echo 0; find [args...] -printf '%s +\n'; echo p) | dc

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