Gerard wrote: > I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the >combined size of a number of files. > Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb.
One mouse click with a GUI file manager and result of '34 files, 390kb' immediately displayed. So much for those poor souls who have to use abbreviations because they're overrun with keystrokes. >And since some distro have a line in bashrc that aliases 'dir' to 'ls -al', on those distros the command 'dir' gives you what you want, just like the originalquestion. Wow - full circle. Yes, full circle. Back where you started. The graphic interface was heralded 20 years ago as being the best thing since sliced bread. Where you guys been for the past 20 years? Linux has recently entered the 20th Century, why not now move on and join some of us in the 21st. Peter.
