From time to time one needs to count the size of all files matching a certain pattern.

The following command will print a list of all matching files and their size in a human readable form. At the end a sum of all files will be printed.

find . -name '*.<file-ending>' -print0 | xargs -r0 du -csh;

If you only need the total and not the individual files incl. their sizes just add a |tail -n1 before the last ;

Greetings
.sascha