On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 01:24:44 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
- @actual=`wc -c $@ | awk '{print $$1}'`; \
How about using
stat -c '%s'
to get the file size in a single command, without need to actually read all the data?
because `stat` isnt portable :(. it isnt part of the POSIX standard ... OSX certainly does not support this, and i imagine most *BSD's dont.
I see (well, at least FreeBSD 8.1 has "stat"; their man page claims it "appeared in NetBSD 1.6 and FreeBSD 4.10).
yes, but what i was referring to was the command line options. everyone has `stat`, but it's really only the GNU stat that supports the '-c fmt' option using the semantics necessary here. `wc -c` is going to work everywhere, but i would need to figure out what OS i'm on and where `stat` is coming from so i would know how to properly invoke it. -mike