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Find "*.log" files in your home dir, sort them by fattest-first, and calculate the size of them all together.
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find ~ -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 -L1 stat -f'%z %N' | sort -rn | tee fat-logfiles.txt | head
awk '{ total += $1 } END { printf "total: %5.2f MiB\n", total/1024/1024 }' < fat-logfiles.txt
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13k commented Feb 7, 2013

linux version:

find ~ -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 -L1 stat -c '%s %N' | sort -rn | tee fat-logfiles.txt | head
awk '{ total += $1 } END { printf "total: %5.2f MiB\n", total/1024/1024 }' < fat-logfiles.txt

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henrik commented Feb 7, 2013

Maybe /tmp/fat-logfiles.txt, not to litter your working dir.

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