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

Darn, Stephan202 is right. I didn't think about du -s (summarize), so instead I used awk:

find rapidly_shrinking_drive/ -name "offender1" -mtime -1 | du | awk '{total+=$1} END{print total}'

I like the other answer better though, and it's almost certainly more efficient.