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Get file size in bytes on Linux

By admin on Dec 4, 2015

Sometime we need to get file size for the purpose of automation in bash shell script. Here are few ways to get a size of file in bytes on Linux and Mac.

print file bytes using stat

Linux

// Use gstat on Mac
$ stat --format="%s" img1.png 
47628

print file bytes using wc -c

$ wc -c img1.png
47628

print file bytes using ls

$ ls -l img1.png
-rw-r--r--@ 1 pkjain  staff  47628 Dec  4 23:23 img1.png

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