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# 15  
Old 04-03-2012
yeh i changed it, now it's working fine...

Code:
ls -s Documents | grep DesiredFile | awk '{ print $1 }')

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thanks alot itkamaraj and CarloM
# 16  
Old 04-03-2012
You could save a command/pipe by just passing the filename into awk for use as a pattern.
Code:
size=$(ls -RFs $dval | awk -vval=$name '$0 ~ val { print $1 }')

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# 17  
Old 04-03-2012
oh yea that works too.... haha never really think of using awk that way, i newbie in this hehe
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