Find total filesize of all WAV files in a directory using command line tools

Use this command to find the total file size of all .wav files (including .WAV files)

find_wav_total_size.sh

find . -name "*.wav" -or -name "*.WAV" -exec du -ch {} + | tail -n 1

find . -name "*.wav" -or -name "*.WAV" -exec du -ch {} + | tail -n 1

Example output:

find_wav_total_size_output.txt

6,7G    total

6,7G    total

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