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

I'd like to promote jason's comment above to the status of answer, because I believe it's the most mnemonic (though not the most generic, if you really gotta have the file list specified by find):

$ du -hs *.nc
6.1M  foo.nc
280K  foo_region_N2O.nc
8.0K  foo_region_PS.nc
844K  foo_region_xyz.nc
844K  foo_region_z.nc
37M   ETOPO1_Ice_g_gmt4.grd_region_zS.nc
$ du -ch *.nc | tail -n 1
45M total
$ du -cb *.nc | tail -n 1
47033368  total