Re: [LUG] Checking size of file and running command depending on size

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Benjamin A'Lee <bma+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:54:17PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to write a bash script to check if a file is larger than a
>> certain size (say 15KB) and if it isn't to run another command.
>>
>> The closest thing I have found is the test command which can check if
>> a file exists and is bigger than 0 bytes.
>>
>> I don't suppose anyone knows how to check the file sizes and run on a
>> certain condition do they?
>
> `stat -c '%s'` will give you file size in bytes. So try
>
>     test `stat -c '%s' $file` -ge 15360 || echo $file
>
> to print the filename if it's less than 15KB.

Ahh brilliant, thanks guys, I managed to get what I needed with the  
following...


file=/tmp/asc/091707.ASC

size=`stat -c %s $file`

if [ $size < 15000 ]
    then echo "No"
fi

Not pretty but does the job.

That'll save me endless hours of messing around with VB.Net :-)

Rob






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