What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?

[George Turczynski]

In article <1990Aug3.193231.3166 at silma.com>, aab at silma.com (Andy Burgess) writes:

> ...
> 
> While you're at it, is there a better way to get the total bytes
> of the files in a directory?

You could try something like this:

ls -ld * | awk '{ sum+= $4 } END { print sum }'

It does a similar thing to what your script is supposed to do.

Hope this is of some interest to someone...

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