Can ls show total Kbytes of "foo*"?

[jim frost]

In article <2453 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia at umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
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|I wonder if there is an obvious way to compute the total size of all
|"foo*" files in a directory.  The only way I know how is the ridiculously 
|complicated construction:
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|ls -1s foo* | awk 'BEGIN{size=0} {size += $1} END{print "total: " size}'
[...]
|Am I missing something obvious?

Yes.  You could just do "wc -c foo* | tail -1".  If you don't do the
tail it will display the size of each followed by a summary line; with
it you get just the summary line or -- if there's only one file --
just the size.

jim frost
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