[plug] bash script program help

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:01:34AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> >   function filesize() {
> >     echo $(ls -l $1 | awk '{print $5}')
> >   }
> 
> This can be done more directly using stat(1), e.g.
> 
>     filesize () {
>         stat -c %s $1
>     }

Ah, very nice.  Thanks.

And the "echo $()" was superfluous, too.  :(

> This seems to be slightly Linux-specific, though: it's there on *BSD but
> it isn't present on Solaris or Tru64.

Not on AIX 5.2, either.



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