Preach it Pete!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Cornelius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 17:15
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: combined file sizes info, how ?
>
>
> 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.
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