Shell script to find and count total number of characters in all the files

Question

I'm struggling to make a script to find every file in your home directory that is less than 3 days old and then get a count of the total number of characters in all of these files.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

Below command should work from the current directory.

find ./ -ctime -3 | xargs wc -c

Below should work for home directory.

find ~ -ctime -3 | xargs wc -c