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Welcome to bashoneliners.com, a curated collection of practical and well-explained Bash one-liners, snippets, tips and tricks. We aim to make each published one-liner to be of high quality: useful, easy to read, follows best practices, with clear, detailed, accurate explanation. These one-liners should help you automate tasks, troubleshoot problems, whether it be in system administration, file management, networking or programming.

Calculate the total disk space used by a list of files or directories

du -s file1 dir1 | awk '{sum += $1} END {print sum}'

December 28, 2011bashoneliners

Calculate the average execution time (of short running scripts) with awk

for i in {1..10}; do time some_script.sh; done 2>&1 | grep ^real | sed -e s/.*m// | awk '{sum += $1} END {print sum / NR}'

December 21, 2011bashoneliners