Given a list of files in files.txt
, I can get a list of their sizes like this:
cat files.txt | xargs ls -l | cut -c 23-30
which produces something like this:
151552 319488 1536000 225280
How can I get the total of all those numbers?
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Answer
... | paste -sd+ - | bc
is the shortest one I’ve found (from the UNIX Command Line blog).
Edit: added the -
argument for portability, thanks @Dogbert and @Owen.