How to check file size in solaris?


 
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Old 07-10-2009
How to check file size in solaris?

Hi All

I m having a file , path is /usr/Image/test

how i can get size of the "test" file?

is there any command for that?
# 2  
Old 07-10-2009
if test is a file what happen if you give ls -lrt , the 5th column contains the size of file . if test is a directory then you can use du -s /test to get the size of directory
# 3  
Old 07-10-2009
this is unix basic knowledge Smilie

Code:
ls -l /path/to/file
du -sk /path/to/file

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Old 07-13-2009
Thanx to all for the answer
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