On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:54:41 -0400 Mario DeFazio wrote:
> Is there a fast ksh method (builtin, operator, etc.) for getting
> the size of a file in bytes?
> I generally use $(wc -c < file) because I think it's more portable than
> parsing 'ls' output,
> but it's expensive just from the fork&exec alone -- maybe even more
> expensive than 'ls'
> if wc is actually *counting* bytes as opposed to getting the size from
> the i-node.
the ast wc -c uses stat.st_size for regular files
wc is also part of -lcmd, so this shoulod make it a builtin
builtin wc
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