Equivalent command to 'stat' - Shell Programming and Scripting

im_new · #1 12-27-2007

Can anyone tell me which is the equivalent command to
'stats' in ksh shell which discribes the file system?

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Im_new

prowla · #2 12-27-2007

What's "stats" (OS, example, etc.)?

im_new · #3 12-27-2007

stat -c %s test.txt
this command gives me size of the test.txt on GNU/Linux
But on Sun sol I'm nt bale to use this command.
Need equivalent command to it...

Thanks

im_new

ghostdog74 · #4 12-27-2007

here you go

Code:

# du -b file |cut -f1

or

Code:

# ls -l file| awk '{print $5}'

or

Code:

# wc -c file | cut -f1

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