Add column using linux command

Sum a column of file sizes output from an list (ls) command using awk.



ls -lh php*; ls -l php* | awk '{ SUM += $5} END { print SUM/1024/1024 }'




The line above prints the list with 'human' numbers ls -lh for all files that start with php.



The AWK command sums the fifth column (filesize) of the ls -l (bytes)

and print the result divided by 1024 to give the megabytes total.



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-rw-rw-r--    1 admin    site13       8.9k Nov 11 23:15 php_contact_form.php

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-rw-r--r--    1 root     site13        948 Dec  7 21:56 php_gethostbyaddr.php

-rw-rw-r--    1 liamdela site13       2.1k Feb 25  2002 php_list_a_directory.php

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