How to get combined disc space of all files in a directory with help of du in linux

Asked Mar 06 '20 at 08:33

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I have many files in a directory structure. I want to get combined size of particular files which have name demo in it. I tried following approach : "find -name demo -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch | grep total" But i now found that du is giving me combined space in set of 1657 files. "OUTPUT"

"105M total

101M total"

(First total is of first 1657 files and next total is of next 1657 files). Is there any way I can increase 1657 to higher number or I can get combined disc space in the end?

asked Mar 06 '20 at 08:33

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Use find's exec option: `find -name 'demo' -exec du -ch {} + | tail -n 1` – builder-7000 Mar 06 '20 at 08:41
Not working. Giving output in bunch of 1657 files. I want summation of all. – Learner Mar 06 '20 at 09:24

How to get combined disc space of all files in a directory with help of du in linux

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