Re^2: file test operation on files greater than 2gigs

Probably better to use the output of stat(1). Trying to parse ls(1) is well known to be a bad idea.

my $size = `stat -f %z yourfile.txt`;
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Re^3: file test operation on files greater than 2gigs by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2013 at 12:47 UTC
...except that the GNU version uses `-c %s` for the format string argument. Ah well. Portability woes everywhere.	[reply] [d/l]