sh script code to get file size.

[Fbsd8]

Chris Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote:
> 
>> In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated
>> size of a sparse file.
>> The only command that comes to mind is "ls -lh"
>> The "du -h" command is not appropriate because it will show
>> the occupied size and not the allocated size.
>>
>> I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output of that
>> "ls -lh" command to pickup the file size value.
>>
>> Is there some other way to do this?
> 
> To parse it out, I've used something like:
> 
> $ ls -lh npviewer.bin.core | cut -d \  -f 9
> 186M
> 
> After the backslash are two spaces: one being the space that's being 
> escaped to make it the delimiter, the other to separate the options.
> 
> The number after the '-f' determines which "field" of the output is 
> displayed, which may vary.
> 
> HTH.
> 
Yes that works real nice.

Thanks to all who replied.