Total File Size

meshcurrent · 05-17-2004, 04:17 AM

`du` reports the total disk usage of the contents of a directory, but is there a way to report the total actual file size of the contents of a directory, which is independent from the file system block size? `ls` does that but not recursively.

Youssef Eldakar
Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Tinkster · 05-17-2004, 03:09 PM

Code:

ls -Rl

?
Or do you want the sum?

Code:

ls -Rl | awk '{total += $5 }; END { print "Bytes total is", total} '

Cheers,
Tink