[Ilugc] Re: Need to calculate the file size in shell scripting

[Mohan R]

Balachandar wrote:

i dont want any trailing attachments.I only want the file size.Any help ??

then, take whatever field you want like this,

$ du -s 1.txt | awk '{print $1;}'
100
$

or another one,

$ ls -l /bin/bash | awk '{print $5;}'
908464
$

Thanks,
Mohan R

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