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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:39:50 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sh script code to get file size.
Message-ID:  <20130118233950.GA5709@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <50F9DA3E.5050607@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <50F9DA3E.5050607@a1poweruser.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 18), Fbsd8 said:
> In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated
> size of a sparse file.
> The only command that comes to mind is "ls -lh"
> The "du -h" command is not appropriate because it will show
> the occupied size and not the allocated size.
> 
> I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output of that
> "ls -lh" command to pickup the file size value.
> 
> Is there some other way to do this?

For a single file, you can get the exact filesize with "stat -f %z
filename".  For the human-friendly version, "du -hA" will work.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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