Re: total size of files that match a given mask

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:06:30 -0400,
Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-07-10, Michael C. wrote:
Is there a command that will give you the combined size of the
files that match a given file mask? I've gotten into the habit
of moving the files to a temporary directory and using 'du', but
am hoping there is a more practical way. CLI only please, I'm
already aware that many file managers allow this.

set -- a*.txt
echo "There are $# .txt files in $PWD"

Combined size not number, though that is potentially useful, as it
is significantly faster than:

$ echo "There are `ls -1 a*.txt |wc -l` .txt files in $PWD"


"du -ch a*.txt", does what I need.

Thanks,

Michael C.
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