Posted: 9/5/2009 12:46 PM
Post subject: Sum the filesize in linux?
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Highness
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Hi, I was trying to find a way to sum the output of du -h in linux for a give wildcard such as: 'du -h --max-depth 0 Folder_Containing_My_Wildcard*' I then want to get something like: 959M Folder_Containing_My_Wildcard1 186M Folder_Containing_My_Wildcard2 ----------- TOT: 1145M Is there a good way to do this simple without having to calculate this your self?
Posted: 9/5/2009 12:50 PM
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ShinyDoofy
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du -shc folder1 folder2 *.mkv As DeHackEd pointed out, --total makes a stronger point than -c. See the manpage on du or run du --help.
Posted: 9/5/2009 3:06 PM
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Highness
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Thanks. This helped. :)