Getting size of a file
 

Hi

I want to write a script that finds the size of some of the files in a specific directory. Is there any command that returns the size of a file??

thanx
rYr

thanx ..

On Redhat Linux WS 2.1 there is no -c option. In the remaining options i didnt find anything that gives the size of a file.

On AIX machine there is no stat command available.

Is there some other command available that i can use in my shell script??

I think you need to quote "%s" like that.
 

I think you need to quote "%s"
stat -c "%s" awake.mp3
5158034

:study: 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

thanx this info was helpful..

I did have a problem though that "du -b" option was not available in AIX so it works fine on Linux but fails on AIX. Now i am using a combination of "ls -l" and "awk" to get the size.

ls -l myfile.txt |awk '// {print $5}'

it works fine both in linux and AIX :)