Finding File Size

cmfarley19 · 01-24-2005, 08:24 AM

I am playing around with a script to rotate an RSS feed based on file size.
I came up with two different ways to do it, but they yield two different results.

I'm proabaly missing something. Can anybody explain this?

Code:

[cfarley@wombat cfarley]$ du path_to_file/file.rss| cut -f1
12K
[cfarley@wombat cfarley]$ ll -h path_to_file/|grep file.rss|grep -v template|awk '{print $5}'
8.5K

FYI...
In the second example, the

Code:

grep -v template

is to filter out a file called file.rss.template.

slakmagik · 01-24-2005, 09:36 AM

Try 'du -bh'. du reports in blocks of 512/1024k which are actually used by the file while ls (or du -bh) reports the byte-length of the file.