Why does “find . -name *.txt | xargs du -hc” give multiple totals?

Question

I have a large set of directories for which I\'m trying to calculate the sum total size of several hundred .txt files. I tried this, which mostly works:

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Answer 1

One alternate solution is to use bash for loop:

for i in `find . -name '*.txt'`; do du -hc $i | grep -v 'total'; done

This is good for when you need more control of what happens in the loop.