unix tip of the day

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

because of slight syntax variations from one OS to another, YMMV, but in BSD this works like a charm.

How to find the size of every specific type of file in a directory and all sub-directions, plus the total size of them all combined:

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#find . -name "*.MYI" | xargs du -h -c

The above example finds MySQL index files and was executed from /var/db/mysql