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From: Sven Guckes <guckes@math.fu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: lssum - summing up sizes of files
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 23:56:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980613235639.B5224@math.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980613153845.A28197@morel.campusclub.princeton.edu>; from Danek Duvall on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 03:38:45PM -0400

Quoting Danek Duvall (duvall@campusclub.princeton.edu):
> > I keep wondering why "gls" doesn't aloow to "sum file sizes".
> 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.

Sure, but - if the zsh has to do globbing anyway
then why not have it looks at the files, too?

As there is a GLOBBING modifier for "size" then I suspect
there must be a nice way to extract the size of files somehow.
Would be nice if there was an easy way to get the sum
without writing an explicit loop for this, too.

I am trying not to ask for a built-in replacement
for gls here - but then again, I wouldn't mind.  ;-)

Sven


  reply	other threads:[~1998-06-13 22:03 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     ` lssum - summing up sizes of files Danek Duvall
1998-06-13 21:56       ` Sven Guckes [this message]
1998-06-14  0:20         ` Bart Schaefer

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