Unix find average file size

Question

I have a directory with a ton of files I want to find the average file size of these files so something like ls somethinghere whats the average file size of everyth

Answer 1

I found something here:
http://vivekjain10.blogspot.com/2008/02/average-file-size-within-directory.html

To calculate the average file size within a directory on a Linux system, following command can be used:

ls -l | gawk '{sum += $5; n++;} END {print sum/n;}'