[plug] bash script program help

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:16:22AM +0800, Lance Duivenbode wrote:
> 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`

Be careful with du, as it will print sizes in kilobytes (with GNU
utilities) or 512 byte units (on BSDs I think, and some POSIX
commercial unixes), and when doing that will round up to the
filesystem's block size.

  $ ls -l A
  -rw-r--r--  1 russells resswa 802 2006-01-11 08:45 A
  $ du A
  4       A
  $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 du A
  8       A
  $ du --bytes A
  802     A
  $ 



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Russell Steicke

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