| Keywords: | file,size,filesize,echo |
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| Contributor: | Frank Lazzarini |
This is a simple snippet to echo the size of a file in bytes.
#!/bin/bash FILENAME=/home/heiko/dummy/packages.txt FILESIZE=$(wc -c < "$FILENAME") # non standard way (GNU stat): FILESIZE=$(stat -c%s "$FILENAME") echo "Size of $FILENAME = $FILESIZE bytes."
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