Getting file sizes

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Monday 22 October 2007 09:11, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Newbie question:
>
> How can I get the total size, in K, of all files in a directory that
> match a pattern?
>
> For example, I have a dir with ~5000 files, I would like to know the
> total size of the ~1000 files matching *.txt.

    Ah!  Perhaps I actually know an answer to this one.  (Very rare) 

    Go to directory of interest and try
    du -shc *.txt

Jim Kuzdrall