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Old 12-30-2003
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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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Old 12-31-2003
<Trying not to add too much to an already over discussed subject>

But depending on your os, you may have the 'du' command at your disposal as well.

'du' is nice for summarizing sizes of files, groups of files, directories etc.

Cheers,

Keith
 
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