{"id":5060,"date":"2012-08-28T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:47:26","slug":"summarize-disk-usage-of-all-files-of-a-given-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=5060","title":{"rendered":"Summarize disk usage of all files of a given type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needed to know how much disk space all *.ear-files was consuming in a directory on one of our Linux-servers<br \/>\n<!-- codeblock lang=\"bash\" line=\"1\" --><\/p>\n<pre><code>\r\nfind . -type f -name \"*.ear\" -exec ls -l {} \\; | awk '{print $5}' &gt; sum.txt\r\nawk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }' sum.txt \r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><!-- \/codeblock --><\/p>\n<p>Then I used Google to make the number human readable, https:\/\/www.google.no\/search?q=9606676582+bytes+to+gb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needed to know how much disk space all *.ear-files was consuming in a directory on one of our Linux-servers find . -type f -name &#8220;*.ear&#8221; -exec ls -l {} \\; | awk &#8216;{print $5}&#8217; &gt; sum.txt awk &#8216;{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }&#8217; sum.txt Then I used Google to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12562,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/12562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}