Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Just the File Size Please

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

wc -c < foo

Joe said...

Thanks Anonymous, that works great!

Anonymous said...

stat -c%s foo

Norman said...

wc will cause the entire file to be read from disk, so it's better to use stat. That way it'll take the same amount of time no matter how big the log file is :-)