Re: comparing file sizes

[Marc Mutz]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> How's this?
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> sizeof() { local lies; lies=$(ls -s $1 2>/dev/null); if test -f $1
>     then  (echo $lies|cut -d' ' -f 1);
>     else  echo NAN;
>    fi
>    }
> 
<snip>

ls -s reports in 1k blocks...

Marc

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University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics

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