[LearnAdmin] Bash script to find average file size in a directory

[Naresh Surampudi]

If you want output in Kb


 ls -l | awk '{s+=$5} END {print "Average file size: " s/NR/1024 "k"}'
Average file size: 28683.4k

If you want output in MB

ls -l | awk '{s+=$5} END {print "Average file size: " s/NR/1024/1024 "MB"}'

Average file size: 28.0112MB

If you want output in GB

ls -l | awk '{s+=$5} END {print "Average file size: " s/NR/1024/1024/1024 "GB"}'

Average file size: 0.0273546GB

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Posted By Naresh Surampudi to LearnAdmin at 12/05/2012 03:55:00 PM