On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:27:55AM -0800, horst wrote: > >Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:35:55 -0800 > >From: Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > >>others print the number of bytes. Which did you want? > > > >bytes. the files need to fit on a DVD. > > > > I have no idea how universal wc is (though not efficient), but > wc -c *.mp3 > does the math for you.
well, I didn't know about wc -c, thanks. however, the output, at least on my system, is not easily parsable, as it is oddly aligned, with varying amounts of space. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Horst > > P.S. In a few years python's function os.stat() will be as popular as > perl's stat... but of course you'd expected such smelly footnote from my > end :-) :) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
