Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > In article <mailman.3442.1371389433.3114.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Kwpolska Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (Im using wc -c to count the bytes in all files there are. du is >> unaccurate with files smaller than 4096 bytes.) > > It's not that du is not accurate, it's that it's measuring something > different. It's measuring how much disk space the file is using. For > most files, that's the number of characters in the file rounded up to a > full block.
I think âdu -câ emits a number very close to âwc -câ.
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