On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:20:53 +0200,
Dan <d...@nnnne-o-o-o.com> wrote:
> 
> Here I found a strange behavior of du:
> 
> wiz$ ls -lsa index.php
> 16 -rw-r--r--  1 user  www  7412 Oct 19  2024 index.php
> wiz$ du index.php
> 16    index.php     <-- this is weird
> wiz$ du -h index.php
> 8.0K  index.php
> 
> 7.7 stable
> 

Let me quote a man page du(1):

     -k      By default, all sizes are reported in 512-byte block counts.  The
             -k option causes the numbers to be reported in kilobyte counts.

If you looking a way to have an accurate size of a file in bytes, use wc

-- 
wbr, Kirill

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