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You sure that's not because of memory swapping? Once warmed up the awk command is much faster for me. Also, the results are different - though I'm too lazy to

• cynwoody 14y ago
  You need to filter out directory entries. find -type f -ls|awk '{s += $7} END {print s}' find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 wc -c | tail -1 find -type f -exec wc -c {} + | tail -1