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if [ `stat -c %s $a` -gt `stat -c %s $b` ]
then
echo "$a"
else
echo "$b"
fi


The more modern syntax would be something like this:

if (( $(stat -c %s file1) > $(stat -c %s file2)...

Two tips:


assign stat command output to two variables using syntax: size=`stat ...`
to compare those variables use -gt operator

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