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

Use du to estimate file space usage for a given directory.

du -sh /Your/Path # Average file size in human readable format

-s (--summarize) display only a total for each argument.

-h (--human-readable) print sizes in human readable format (e.g. 1K, 234M, 2G).

Note that not using -h would give the default block size (512-byte blocks).

If you wish to specify the block size you can use -k (Kilobytes), -m (Megabytes), or -g (Gigabytes).

du -sk /Your/Path # Average file size in Kilobytes.

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Footnote: Using a file path would give the specified files's size.