The way to check a HDFS directory's size?

When trying to calculate the total of a particular group of files within a directory the -s option does not work (in Hadoop 2.7.1). For example:

Directory structure:

some_dir
├abc.txt    
├count1.txt 
├count2.txt 
└def.txt    

Assume each file is 1 KB in size. You can summarize the entire directory with:

hdfs dfs -du -s some_dir
4096 some_dir

However, if I want the sum of all files containing "count" the command falls short.

hdfs dfs -du -s some_dir/count*
1024 some_dir/count1.txt
1024 some_dir/count2.txt

To get around this I usually pass the output through awk.

hdfs dfs -du some_dir/count* | awk '{ total+=$1 } END { print total }'
2048 

The easiest way to get the folder size in a human readable format is

hdfs dfs -du -h /folderpath

where -s can be added to get the total sum

hadoop version 2.3.33:

hadoop fs -dus  /path/to/dir  |   awk '{print $2/1024**3 " G"}' 

hdfs dfs -count <dir>

info from man page:

-count [-q] [-h] [-v] [-t [<storage type>]] [-u] <path> ... :
  Count the number of directories, files and bytes under the paths
  that match the specified file pattern.  The output columns are:
  DIR_COUNT FILE_COUNT CONTENT_SIZE PATHNAME
  or, with the -q option:
  QUOTA REM_QUOTA SPACE_QUOTA REM_SPACE_QUOTA
        DIR_COUNT FILE_COUNT CONTENT_SIZE PATHNAME