[plug] bash script program help

[Lance Duivenbode]

Another way is to use cut(1):

#!/bin/sh

fileA=$1
fileB=$2

sizeA=`du $fileA | cut -f 1`
sizeB=`du $fileB | cut -f 1`

echo $sizeA
echo $sizeB

if [ "$sizeA" -gt "$sizeB" ]; then
  echo 'Greater'
else
  echo 'Less'
fi



Russell Steicke wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:01:34AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
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>>>  function filesize() {
>>>    echo $(ls -l $1 | awk '{print $5}')
>>>  }
>>>      
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>>This can be done more directly using stat(1), e.g.
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>>    filesize () {
>>        stat -c %s $1
>>    }
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>Ah, very nice.  Thanks.
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>And the "echo $()" was superfluous, too.  :(
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>>This seems to be slightly Linux-specific, though: it's there on *BSD but
>>it isn't present on Solaris or Tru64.
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>Not on AIX 5.2, either.
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