On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:07:44 -0600, Parin Gangar wrote:
>
>I need to calculate the size of a dataset in Megabytes / Gigabytes. I cannot
>download the file and check the same as I know the file size would be over 50
>GB and I don't want to fill up my hard disk.
>
1) Mount the data set with NFS.
Use the "wc" command on the client system to count bytes.
2) Or, on an FTP client that supports pipes as targets, do:
get 'MY.DATA.SET' "| wc"
-- gil
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