Dexter Filmore wrote:
> I hacked up this script to monitor at what rate a file grows:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> LASTSIZE=`ls -s "$1" | cut -d" " -f1` #size now, init
-s, --size
print size of each file, in blocks
> So far, so good. Now the script as such works, but always gives me integers.
> When uncommenting the line that echoes the raw values I noticed, the
> difference from one second to the next is *always* 3072k or 4096k, maybe
> sometimes +4k.
> Where's my concept error?
ls --size --block-size=1 $1 | cut -d" " -f1
will return the filesize, in bytes.
As a general note, I tend to recommend using the long options in
scripts. It helps in documentation.
-john
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