On Dec 29, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> But, I'd suggest using something that doesn't read the entire file to
>> get the size.
>
> installsize="`( echo 0 ; ls -l $files | awk '{ print $5 }' | while
> read onefile ; do echo $onefile"+" ; done ; echo p ) | dc`"
So cool ! :)