Finding a file size

LneWlf · 12-07-2009, 01:47 PM

Hello, newbie here;

Scenario:

Need to find the size of a file (html), and display it in a summary file.

Any suggestions? (Have tried du, ls, size, but none of these work)

Thanks,

LneWlf

lugoteehalt · 12-07-2009, 02:06 PM

Not obvious why not just something like:

Code:

$ ls -lh filename.html > summaryFile.txt

colucix · 12-07-2009, 02:12 PM

Hi and welcome to LinuxQuestions!

Have you tried stat? By the way, what do you mean by "none of these work"? All the cited command can be used to retrieve different information from file objects, ls being the most suitable to retrieve the size of a file (unless you have to deal with sparse files). In any case, I believe stat is exactly what you're looking for.

Web31337 · 12-07-2009, 02:18 PM

not obvious why use ls (o_0) instead of stat:

Code:

stat -c %s file.html > size.txt

uh?

lugoteehalt · 12-07-2009, 02:30 PM

Oh dear.

ghostdog74 · 12-07-2009, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LneWlf

(Have tried du, ls, size, but none of these work)

you should then post what you did when none of these work. i can assure you du, ls will work, among others like stat, GNU find etc.

Code:

ls -l|awk 'NR>1{print $5}'

colucix · 12-07-2009, 06:06 PM

As ghostdog mentioned, even find should work and you can take advantages of the searching criteria, e.g.

Code:

find . -name \*.html -printf "%f size is %s bytes\n"