Timeline for What's the POSIX-compliant way to get the size of a file or folder in bytes?
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| May 30, 2023 at 0:07 | answer | added | finefoot | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2023 at 22:55 | vote | accept | finefoot | ||
| Dec 21, 2022 at 8:56 | answer | added | Stéphane Chazelas | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 8:21 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | For directories (which I suppose is what you mean by folder), do you want the size of the directory file itself, or do you also want the size of files within included? Recursively? Then what about files included more than once (several hard links to the same file), do you want them included only once like GNU du -b does? | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 8:16 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | See How can I get the size of a file in a bash script? | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 0:25 | comment | added | edo1 | BTW, POSIX du doesn't have --apparent-size option as well (e.g on fs with compression support disk usage could be less than apparent size). | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 0:15 | comment | added | edo1 | for files only: ls -ld somefile | awk '{print $5}' | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 22:58 | history | asked | finefoot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |