Robert McKay writes: >Might I suggest wc -c ? Well, yes, but it involves reading every byte in the file, which is fine for small files, but we're talking about gigabytes here. Reading st_size is a much better way to find out how big a file is. Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug