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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Compare two file sizes. Post 302485666 by rdcwayx on Wednesday 5th of January 2011 10:22:00 PM
Old 01-05-2011
no temp file generated.

Code:
file1=abc
file2=xyz

diff <(ls -l $file1| awk '{print $5}') <(ls -l $file2| awk '{print $5}')

 

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size(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   size(1)

NAME
size - print section sizes of object files SYNOPSIS
files DESCRIPTION
produces section size information for each section in the object files. The size of the text, data and bss (uninitialized data) sections are printed along with the total size of the object file. If an archive file is input to the command, the information for all archive mem- bers is displayed. Options recognizes the following options: Print sizes in decimal. This is the default. Print sizes in octal. Print sizes in hexadecimal. Print version information about the command. Print a verbose list of the subspaces in the object files. Each subspace is listed on a separate line with its size, physical address, and virtual address. Print the size of each allocatable section (ELF only). Print the size and permission bits of each loadable segment (ELF only). Print the sizes of non loadable segments or non allocatable sections (ELF only). Print the usage menu. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables The following internationalization variables affect the execution of Determines the locale category for native language, local customs and coded character set in the absence of and other environment variables. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of (see lang(5)) is used instead of Determines the values for all locale categories and has precedence over and other environment variables. Determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. Determines the locale category for numeric formatting. Determines the locale category for character handling functions. Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to See envi- ron(5). International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. DIAGNOSTICS
name cannot be read. name is not an appropriate object file. EXAMPLES
Compare the sizes of the text, data, and bss sections for two versions of a program: SEE ALSO
System Tools: as(1) translate assembly code to machine code cc(1) invoke the HP-UX C compiler ld(1) invoke the link editor Miscellaneous: a.out(4) assembler, compiler, and linker output ar(4) archive format STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
size(1)
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