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How to obtain file sizes from ls output on the command line
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| # ls -s displays the size of files, in blocks, followed by the file name. | |
| # For convenience, I am setting the block size to 1024 bytes, or 1 kilobyte. | |
| # The output of ls -s is piped to an awk command that incrementally adds the file sizes and displays the total. | |
| ls --block-size=1024 -s /path/to/files | awk '{ total += $1 }; END { print total }' |
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