Sum the size of your logfiles

Published on Juni 11, 2009 in Verschiedenes. 3 Comments Tags: bash, code, Linux, snippet.

Find out how much space is occupied by your logfiles. Usefull in /var/log et al.

find . -type f -name “*.log” -size +2048 -exec du -s {} \; | awk ‘{ SUM += $1; } END { print SUM/1024/1024 }’

comes
Juni 12, 2009 at 7:26

haidi@haidi:~/$ find . -type f -name “*.log” -size +2048 -exec du -s {} \; | awk ‘{ SUM += $1; } END { print SUM/1024/1024 }’
–> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}’
Constantin
Juni 12, 2009 at 12:36

Bei mir sagt er
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}’

Gruß,
C.
Holger
August 23, 2009 at 10:54

syntax error near unexpected token happens because when copying and pasting the example, the curly single quotes are translated to full stops – it would be better if the examples contained straight quotes