total size of group of files selected with 'find'

Question

For instance, I have a large filesystem that is filling up faster than I expected. So I look for what\'s being added:

find /rapidly_shrinking_drive/ -type f          


        

Answer 1

The command du tells you about disk usage. Example usage for your specific case:

find rapidly_shrinking_drive/ -name "offender1" -mtime -1 -print0 | du --files0-from=- -hc | tail -n1

(Previously I wrote du -hs, but on my machine that appears to disregard find's input and instead summarises the size of the cwd.)