On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 01:24:44 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger 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).yes, but what i was referring to was the command line options. everyone has `stat`, but it's really only the GNU stat that supports the '-c fmt' option using the semantics necessary here. `wc -c` is going to work everywhere, but i would need to figure out what OS i'm on and where `stat` is coming from so i would know how to properly invoke it. -mike
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