[Gllug] Small shell script challenge

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 16 Dec 2003, Richard Jones wrote:
>Using something like:
>ls -lR dir | awk '{print $5}' | ....
>I can get a list of numbers (actually including some blank
>lines). What's the quickest way to add up those numbers?

You _could_ just use du, you know.

or, | perl -we 'while (<>) {$foo+=$_}; print $foo'

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