In the last episode (Jan 18), Fbsd8 said: > In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated > size of a sparse file. > The only command that comes to mind is "ls -lh" > The "du -h" command is not appropriate because it will show > the occupied size and not the allocated size. > > I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output of that > "ls -lh" command to pickup the file size value. > > Is there some other way to do this?
For a single file, you can get the exact filesize with "stat -f %z filename". For the human-friendly version, "du -hA" will work. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"