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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers determine the size of a file??? Post 45754 by alan on Tuesday 30th of December 2003 07:22:43 PM
Old 12-30-2003
Quote:
Originally posted by Perderabo
Things are not quite this simple. There are two different concepts of size here.

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But I think that Alan is actually interested in the second concept which is how much disk space is consumed by the file.
That is indeed what I was looking for.

Thanks a million for your great reply. This is what I call the epitomy of thoroughness.
 

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GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)						    Git Manual						      GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)

NAME
git-count-objects - Count unpacked number of objects and their disk consumption SYNOPSIS
git count-objects [-v] [-H | --human-readable] DESCRIPTION
This counts the number of unpacked object files and disk space consumed by them, to help you decide when it is a good time to repack. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Report in more detail: count: the number of loose objects size: disk space consumed by loose objects, in KiB (unless -H is specified) in-pack: the number of in-pack objects size-pack: disk space consumed by the packs, in KiB (unless -H is specified) prune-packable: the number of loose objects that are also present in the packs. These objects could be pruned using git prune-packed. garbage: the number of files in object database that are neither valid loose objects nor valid packs size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is specified) alternate: absolute path of alternate object databases; may appear multiple times, one line per path. Note that if the path contains non-printable characters, it may be surrounded by double-quotes and contain C-style backslashed escape sequences. -H, --human-readable Print sizes in human readable format GIT
Part of the git(1) suite Git 2.17.1 10/05/2018 GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)
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