On Monday 22 October 2007 09:11, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Newbie question:
>
> How can I get the total size, in K, of all files in a directory that
> match a pattern?
>
> For example, I have a dir with ~5000 files, I would like to know the
> total size of the ~1000 files matching *.txt.
Ah! Perhaps I actually know an answer to this one. (Very rare)
Go to directory of interest and try
du -shc *.txt
Jim Kuzdrall
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