size of a file

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Re: size of a file by jeroenes (Priest) on Jan 18, 2001 at 16:42 UTC
Do you want to `$size= -s $file`? Jeroen "We are not alone"(FZ)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: size of a file by Beatnik (Parson) on Jan 18, 2001 at 17:17 UTC
You can use `stat()` as well, but that's less pretty :)) `(stat("filename"))[7]` Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: size of a file by PiEquals3 (Acolyte) on Jan 19, 2001 at 00:26 UTC
A (possibly unneccesary) caveat: `-s $file` [download] returns the number of BYTES in the file, which is what you want, right? If you want the number of records in the file, you'll need to either count delimiters or (if the records are fixed-length), divide the bytesize by the record length.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: size of a file by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2001 at 16:47 UTC
I don't really understand how the size command works, so say if I'm in /tmp and I have a file called 'hello'. What I want to do is determine the size of the size 'hello' and store the size size as 'size_of_hello' eg: size -s "/tmp/hello" = "size_of_hello"	[reply]
Re: Re: size of a file by goldclaw (Scribe) on Jan 18, 2001 at 17:18 UTC
As was just mentioned: `$size_of_hello= -s "/tmp/hello";` [download] I have no idea where you have found a size command. Its not a perl builtin. On my Solaris workstation I have an executable called size, but it is used to print the sizes of sections in object files, probably not what you want.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: size of a file by Jonathan (Curate) on Jan 18, 2001 at 17:22 UTC
Do you mean something like this? `$size= -s $file; die "Can't open file $!" unless open NEWFILE, ">/tmp/size_of_hello"; print NEWFILE $size,"\n"; close NEWFILE;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]