From: Danek Duvall <duvall@campusclub.princeton.edu>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: lssum - summing up sizes of files
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:38:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980613153845.A28197@morel.campusclub.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980613211233.A5224@math.fu-berlin.de>; from Sven Guckes on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 09:12:33PM +0200
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 09:12:33PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
> Quoting Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com):
> > In 3.0, there's no direct way to read the size of the file into the shell.
> > You'd have to run "ls" and parse the output, or something.
>
> I see. Too bad.
> And I keep wondering why "gls" doesn't aloow to "sum file sizes".
> Doesn't everybody need this kind of thing every day?
As long as you're using GNU tools, du has a -c option which will sum up the
sizes of the files you specify. It's perhaps not as flexible as a zsh
script, but for this simple thing, it gets the job done.
Danek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-06-13 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-13 16:10 Sven Guckes
1998-06-13 17:06 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-06-13 19:12 ` Sven Guckes
1998-06-13 19:33 ` adding examples to man pages Richard Coleman
1998-06-13 19:38 ` Danek Duvall [this message]
1998-06-13 21:56 ` lssum - summing up sizes of files Sven Guckes
1998-06-14 0:20 ` Bart Schaefer
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