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>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
reza wrote:
 > Does this work for you
 >
 > $ ls -lh | awk '{print $5}'
 >
 > 132B
 > 0B
 > 3.8k
 > 512B
 > 3.9k
 > 512B
 > 512B
 > 14M
 > 512B
 >
 >

Thanks that works for me.