On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:55:20 GMT, Robert Smith wrote:
> Scripting question:
> How would I go about checking the size of a file in directory and storing
> the size in a variable to use later?

Try this
set - $(ls -al /etc/profile)
echo $5

On Mon, 24 May 2004 23:06:33 GMT, Bit Twister
wrote:

>On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:55:20 GMT, Robert Smith wrote:
>> Scripting question:
>> How would I go about checking the size of a file in directory and storing
>> the size in a variable to use later?
>
>Try this
> set - $(ls -al /etc/profile)
> echo $5

Or this...
[root@www tmp]# cat root/bin/sizeof
#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/stat -c %s $1

#eof

An example of usage would be something like...

LIMIT=1000
for FILE in *
do
SIZ=`sizeof $FILE`
if $SIZ > $LIMIT
then
echo "$FILE is > $LIMIT"
else
echo "$FILE is <= $LIMIT"
fi
done


Brad
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 01:14:19 GMT, Brad Olin wrote:

> if $SIZ > $LIMIT

Whoops, that should read...
if $SIZ -gt $LIMIT


integer compare vrs string compare

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