Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > > + @actual=`wc -c $@ | awk '{print $$1}'`; \ > > > > How about using > > > > stat -c '%s' > > > > to get the file size in a single command, without need to actually > > read all the data? > > because `stat` isnt portable :(. it isnt part of the POSIX standard ... OSX > certainly does not support this, and i imagine most *BSD's dont.
I see (well, at least FreeBSD 8.1 has "stat"; their man page claims it "appeared in NetBSD 1.6 and FreeBSD 4.10). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] "The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupi- dity." _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
