du or wc and file names with spaces

bramadams · 01-27-2005, 09:12 AM

Hi,

This issue has been giving me much trouble. The current directory points to the root of a CD with directories containing spaces in their names. How can you count the total number of lines in all *.c-files (recursively) using wc? An equivalent problem: How to determine the total disk space occupied by those files using du?

Eventually I could solve it somehow using grep, but there has to be a solution using wc and du (adjusting $IFS?).

Your suggestions are welcome,

roninja · 01-27-2005, 09:47 AM

Ummm im not sure if i understand you correctly but

wc *.c
du -c *.c

Tinkster · 01-27-2005, 11:43 AM

Diskspace: not using du, though...

Code:

find -iname "*.[ch]" -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{bytes += $5 ; files += 1  }; END { print "Bytes total is", bytes ," in ", files ," files"} '

Lines would be similar ...

Code:

find -iname "*.[ch]" -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{lines += $1 ; files += 1  }; END { print "Lines total is", lines ," in ", files ," files"} '

Cheers,
Tink