>>> "EH" == Ed Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EH> Should we just use 'ls -l $file' with sed to parse the output for the EH> file size? Depending on how portable you want to be, getting the size out of ls -l will not be as easy as it seems: see the comments in mdate-sh. EH> If so, do we have to check for the existence of ls and sed during the EH> configure? Or is going to be found everywhere? You can assume them. (configure wouldn't work if they didn't exist.) EH> Or is there some more clever way to check the size of a file? Sorry for not answering this question (I don't know the answer), but why test only the size ? Isn't the contents important too ? If the file isn't too big I'd ship the expected result and compare it with `cmp'. If it's too big you can still compute a checksum to compare. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz Shared books are happy books. http://www.bookcrossing.com/friend/gadl
