sh check file size

[graudeejs]

How to check single file size with sh?

I'm writing script for burning cds/dvds
I want to check if iso image fits cd/dvd

is there any command for doing something like this?
[i know i can use awk..., (which i also don't know how to use without hours of experiments. lol)]

 

[anomie]

How about du(1)?

$ du -k some-file | awk '{print $1}'
8848

 

[graudeejs]

dam, why didn't thought about it.
I use this program so many times. lol

 

[bsddaemon]

ls without alias would produce the same output:

% \ls -la 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso | awk '{print $5}'
224655360

 

[DutchDaemon]

'ls -s file' will almost get you there

 

[graudeejs]

ye, i know that, i just didn't though it'll be so easy with awk

 

[dinoex@]

shell using "stat"

eval $(stat -s "${name}")
echo "size: ${st_size}"

 

[ephemera]

eval $(stat -s "${name}")
echo "size: ${st_size}"

Nice.

 

[Darwin]

try "Human-readable":

ls -lah somefile | awk '{print $5}'

(21:51)-[Darwin@home ~]% ls -lah somefile | awk '{print $5}'
3,2M