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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get size of a file using ls on all UNIX OSes Post 302801799 by SkySmart on Thursday 2nd of May 2013 02:26:28 PM
Old 05-02-2013
Get size of a file using ls on all UNIX OSes

to get the most granular size of a file, you can do so with:
Code:
solaris hosts:

ls -l /tmp/filea | awk '{print $4}'

Code:
linux hosts:

ls -l /tmp/filea | awk '{print $5}'

Is there a more universal command that will give the file size?

i'm leery of this ls command because the fields in which the file size can be found differs on sunos and linux, and i'm not even sure if it is also like that with other unix oses.

so, is there a command that can accomplish the above without needing to check a field/column which, for all we know, wont be the same on another unix os.

i've tried "du -s". but that doesn't seem to work across all unix systems.

Last edited by SkySmart; 05-02-2013 at 07:06 PM..
 

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