Re: size of a file

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"

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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]