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My file system is set up like:

/ftp/data/ProductGroup*/ProductType*/Year*/Day*/ActualProductFile*

("*"denotes directory names that change)

I'd like to find out how much space is being used for 2011 products. Something like

du -ks /ftp/data/*/*/2011

However, I need the sum of all these directories - there are hundreds of them and I don't want to have to add them all up (too error prone!)

Would anyone have a suggestion?

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and du's -c option isn't what you are looking for? – llua Dec 27 '12 at 18:15
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@llua, not all du implementations support the -c option as that's not a standard option. – Stephane Chazelas Dec 27 '12 at 18:33
Ah, never knew that^ – llua Dec 27 '12 at 19:48

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Simply pipe the results from du into something that will perform the addition for you:

du -ks /ftp/data/*/*/2011 |
    sed -e 's/\(^[0-9]*\).*$/\1 +/' -e '1s/^/0 /' -e '$s/$/ p/' | dc
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I think using awk to sum the column would be more elegant some thing like du -ks /ftp/data/*/*/211 | awk '{ n+=$1; }; END { print n; }' – donothingsuccessfully Dec 27 '12 at 18:32
Sure, that looks less cryptic than mine :-) – Celada Dec 27 '12 at 19:18
Thank you to both! – suri Dec 28 '12 at 17:24

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