I think you need to quote "%s"
stat -c "%s" awake.mp3
5158034
read stat --help
this is stat on redhat 9.1
also du (Disk Usage) command
du -b awake.mp3
5173248 awake.mp3
once you know what the commands are called you can read the manpages/
infopages on them
info -n "Top" "coreutils.info" "Disk usage"
covers du and stat and sf and sync for me.
If you're writing scripts then you might be reading the info/man pages lots!
which stat
/usr/bin/stat
stat --version
stat (coreutils) 4.5.3
Written by Michael Meskes.
stat awake.mp3
File: `awake.mp3'
Size: 5158034 Blocks: 10104 IO Block: 4096 Regular File
Device: 302h/770d Inode: 1771899 Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 500/ jamesc) Gid: ( 500/ jamesc)
Access: 2004-12-14 13:05:17.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2004-12-14 13:02:21.000000000 +0000
Change: 2004-12-14 13:02:21.000000000 +0000