Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:21:44 +0800 From: val <val@inetworx.com.ph> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: A simple query Message-ID: <37B3C788.22864601@inetworx.com.ph>
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<HTML> <FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Dear Mark,</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Hi! It's good to know (actually, I'm very thankful!) there's</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">a website like yours! I'm Valentino P. Pecaoco and a</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Software Engineer by profession (just starting with my</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">career, actually). I'm an absolute beginner in UNIX</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">(FreeBSD, of course!) but I can't wait to "manhandle" it.</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">I have just a simple question: How can I "count" the bytes</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">of a file and sum up the total of different files? When I</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">summon the ls -l command, UNIX lists it in long format,</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">along with the file size. I always wondered how (ever since</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">DOS!) I could access the file size, perhaps store it to a</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">variable to be used in a program that, say, limits the size</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">of a collection of certain files. The files have the .db extension,</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">so should I take up a tutorial on database languages instead?</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">What specific programming language should I use (in retrieving</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">the file size and adding it up)?</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Just show me the way, and I'll do the rest, rest assured that I'll</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">do my best to scour the whole cyberspace to seek for the answer.</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Thanks a million!</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Sincerely,</FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Valentino P. Pecaoco</FONT></HTML> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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