Amount of Space on Drive Used by Certain Files
For the total disk space of files matching “searchstring”
ls -l | awk '/searchstring/ {space = space + $5} END {print space}'
Or for the total of all files:
ls -l | awk '{space = space + $5} END {print space}'
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