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Old 10-17-2006, 10:25 PM   #1
bricedebrignaisplage
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how to get the size of a file in a shell variable

how to get the size of a file in shell?
"ls -ls 1.JPG" gives
"104 -rw-r--r-- 1 casa casa 99341 2006-10-18 10:41 1.JPG"
but how to get the first part, 104, in a shell variable? I would to compare with a numerical value.

Is there any other solution?
 
Old 10-17-2006, 10:55 PM   #2
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filesize=$(stat --format=%s 1.JPG)
 
Old 10-18-2006, 02:34 AM   #3
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BTW, %s = bytes, you asked for blocks; use %b
 
  


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