AlferSoft Blog » used http://www.alfersoft.com.ar/blog Explaining this blog in a few words since 1999 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:36:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to calculate the space used by files in Linux? http://www.alfersoft.com.ar/blog/2010/02/19/how-to-calculate-the-space-used-by-files-in-linux/ http://www.alfersoft.com.ar/blog/2010/02/19/how-to-calculate-the-space-used-by-files-in-linux/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:09:26 +0000 fvicente http://www.alfersoft.com.ar/blog/?p=131

Suppose that you want to calculate the space used by all the png files in current directory and all its subdirectories. From a terminal type:

find . -name '*.png' -exec du -ab {} \; | awk '{total+=$0}END{print total}'

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