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Created September 6, 2014 05:36
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Example shows the use case for listing the total file size of all MP4 files in the current directory without any recursion. Use find command for recursion.
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Find total file-size by type in linux
ls *.mp4 -l | awk '{total += $5} END {print total}'
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