how to get file size using Unix command 1

[hyy1109]

How to get the size of a file using Unix command?

Thanks!

 

[danielhozac]

wc -c <filename>

//Daniel

 

[sleipnir214]

I was thinking:

ls -l <filename>



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[hyy1109]

Thanks for the reply. I found on this size that I can use the following and return me the size of a file.

wc -m filename|tail -1|awk {'print $1'}

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Or you could have used:

ls -l filename | awk '{print $5}' **I think $5 is filesize**

But, hey, as with Unix there are many paths to the same answer!

 

[VladTsyrklevich]

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