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

with GNU find,

 find /path -name "offender" -printf "%s\n" | awk '{t+=$1}END{print t}'