filesize - Shell Programming and Scripting

infyanurag · #1 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

I want to know if there is any unix command to view the size of the file?

eg.
i have a directory letter
in this i have file a,b,c,d,e.

i just want to know the size of file d and not any other.

era · #2 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

Code:

ls -l d

Isolating just the file size is a bit of a challenge. The output from ls also depends on your locale etc; there really ought to be a separate command for getting a file's size in computer-friendly form.

infyanurag · #3 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

thanks for your reply

Can you provide some pointer to that challenge

.
I really need that answer

Yogesh Sawant · #4 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

check if this works for you:

Code:

ls -l  filename | awk '{print $5}'

also check that stat command

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