Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:50:01 -0800 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory Message-ID: <20070103035000.GA99263@ns.umpquanet.com> In-Reply-To: <20070102200721.31D1C16A517@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070102200721.31D1C16A517@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:20:08 -0800
> From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
> Subject: Batch file question - average size of file in directory
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> All,
>
> I don't even have a clue how to start this one, so am looking for a little help.
>
> I've got a directory with a large number of gzipped files in it (over
> 110k) along with a few thousand uncompressed files.
>
> I'd like to find the average uncompressed size of the gzipped files,
> and ignore the uncompressed files.
>
> How on earth would I go about doing that with the default shell (no
> bash or other shells installed), or in perl, or something like that.
> I'm no scripter of any great expertise, and am just stumbling over
> this trying to find an approach.
>
> Many thanks for any help,
>
> Kurt
Hi, Kurt.
Can I make some assumptions that simplify things? No kinky filenames,
just [a-zA-Z0-9.]. My approach specifically doesn't like colons or
spaces, I bet. Also, you say gzipped, so I'm assuming it's ONLY gzip,
no bzip2, etc.
Here's a first draft that might give you some ideas. It will output:
foo.gz : 3456
bar.gz : 1048576
(etc.)
find . -type f | while read fname; do
file $fname | grep -q "compressed" && echo "$fname : $(zcat $fname | wc -c)"
done
If you really need a script that will do the math for you, then
pip the output of this into bc:
#!/bin/sh
find . -type f | {
n=0
echo scale=2
echo -n "("
while read fname; do
if file $fname | grep -q "compressed"
then
echo -n "$(zcat $fname | wc -c)+"
n=$(($n+1))
fi
done
echo "0) / $n"
}
That should give you the average decompressed size of the gzip'ped
files in the current directory.
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