On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 07:30:38PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:20:53 +0200, > Dan <d...@nnnne-o-o-o.com> wrote: > > > > Here I found a strange behavior of du: > > > > wiz$ ls -lsa index.php > > 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 user www 7412 Oct 19 2024 index.php > > wiz$ du index.php > > 16 index.php <-- this is weird > > wiz$ du -h index.php > > 8.0K index.php > > > > 7.7 stable > > > > Let me quote a man page du(1): > > -k By default, all sizes are reported in 512-byte block counts. The > -k option causes the numbers to be reported in kilobyte counts. > > If you looking a way to have an accurate size of a file in bytes, use wc
Or stat -f %z <file>
