I wanted a quick way in the command line to get the disk usage of a bunch of zip files I downloaded in the previous day. I also wanted them sorted by filename and to have quotes surround each filename. I learned from this stackexchange post that du -ch is the command I want to accomplish this. Here is my final command. It works! Note: I ran this on a mac, so I had to use gsed because the version of sed that ships with mac is rather crippled. On linux the command would simply be sed instead of gsed

find . -name "*.zip" -mtime -1|sort -h|sed 's/.\//"/g'|sed 's/.zip/.zip"/g'|gsed -z 's/\n/ /g'|xargs du -ch

The output looks like this (snippet – not the full output):

753M V-A – Mixed by Mahiane – OXYCANTA.zip
912M V-A – Mixed by Nova – ALBEDO.zip
816M V-A – Selected by Fishimself – AMBROSIA (24bits).zip
977M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 1.zip
992M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 2.zip
848M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 3.zip
849M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 4.zip
817M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 5.zip
897M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 6.zip
897M Various Artists – FAHRENHEIT PROJECT – Part 7.zip
737M Various Artists – ISOLATED (24bit).zip
817M Various Artists – OPIA (24bit).zip
55G total

For the curious, I had purchased the Ultimae Digital Collection. Great stuff.