awk

Awk dumps.

Count number of bytes in multiple directories

I have been busy moveing (scp-ing/reorganising) large numer of databases over the network, this little awk script makes me able to count the number of bytes and thus check if my nighlty scp’s didn’t miss a byte. (or two)

/cygdrive/c/oracle/oradata/DB01/DB01
$ find . -name "*DBF" -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 10493952 Oct  9 16:49 ./DB01/DATAFILE/O1_MF_TEST_3HSWQYNH_.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 104865792 Oct  9 16:49 ./EXAMPLE01.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 293412864 Oct  9 16:49 ./P1PERG001.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 104865792 Oct  9 16:49 ./P1PERG002.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 272637952 Oct 13 08:34 ./SYSAUX01.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 513810432 Oct  9 16:49 ./SYSTEM01.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 20979712 Oct 13 08:36 ./TEMP01.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 47194112 Oct  9 16:49 ./UNDOTBS01.DBF
-rwxrwx--- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 5251072 Oct  9 16:49 ./USERS01.DBF
 
/cygdrive/c/oracle/oradata/DB01/DB01
$ find . -name "*DBF" -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '
> BEGIN { BYTES = 0 }
> { BYTES = BYTES + $5 }
> END { print "Total number of bytes = " BYTES}'
Total number of bytes = 1373511680
 
/cygdrive/c/oracle/oradata/DB01/DB01
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