On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Linda Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > (coreutils-8.21-7.7.7) > > wc -c(bytes) doesn't seem to reliably read the number > of bytes in a file. > > I was wanting to find out what the largest data-source > files in '/proc' and '/sys' (didn't get around to trying > /sys, since all the files under /proc/sys return 0 bytes. > > Note -- "wc -l" doesn't return '0' on the /proc/sys files. > > As root: > # cd /proc > # find -H [^0-9]* -name self -prune -o -name thread-self -prune -o -type f ! > -name kmsg ! -name kcore ! -name kpagecount ! -name kpageflags -print0|wc -c > --files0-from=- |sort -n
Thanks for the report. However, with wc from coreutils-8.23 and a 3.10 kernel, this is no longer an issue.
