[Gllug] Script for splitting dirs

[Daniel Andersson]

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:00:50PM +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > > itsbruce at uklinux.net writes:
> > > 
> > > >Use Perl.  This would be a complete pain to do as a shell script.
> > > 
> > > Not really. The only issue is getting the filesize, which is either
> > > done by parsing the output of ls, or calling a helper application.
> > 
> > haven't really followed this
> > but what about using "filesize", no need to parse output of ls
> 
> No such binary on my system, nor is there such a builtin command in
> any of the standard shells, afaik.  Where are you getting that from.

bash, linux

woops, i'm being a lamer

daniel at cj:/usr/bin# more filesize
#!/bin/sh
#
# Print the size of a file, in bytes.
#
echo -n "`ls -l $1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 5 -d ' '`"

/ d


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