Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 23:38:45 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: arden <arden@nildram.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: properties of a file Message-ID: <20040516223845.GA48739@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1084744272.4077.2.camel@localhost> References: <1084744272.4077.2.camel@localhost>
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On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:51:13PM +0100, arden wrote:
> just a quick question=20
>=20
> i know df will tell me the properties of the partition im in, but how do
> i find out how big a signal file is ?
ITYM 'single file':
% ls -l filename
Where the 5th field in the output is the file size in bytes.
But there are very many other ways to get that information:
% wc -c filename
% stat -f %z filename
etc. etc.
Cheers,
Matthew
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