Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· mweppler

Summing the size of a list of files via cli

#command line
#awk
 
ls -ls *.png | awk '{ sum += $6 } END { printf "size: %.2f MB\n", sum/1048576 }'

# size: 6.01 MB
#command line
#awk

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