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

A short, general and recursion-friendly variation of Ernstsson's answer:

find ./ -ls | awk '{sum += $7; n++;} END {print sum/n;}'

Or, for example, if you want to impede files above 100 KB from stewing the average:

find ./ -size -100000c -ls | awk '{sum += $7; n++;} END {print sum/n;}'