Getting file size

Andycal · Post by **Andycal** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:45 pm

I seem to be missing a trick here. The 'files' command puts all files in a folder into a variable which I can then find the file size for, but I just want to get the file size for a file I know the name of.

Do I really need to list all the files in a directory, then find it in the array and then get the file size? Seems a bit bonkers.

I've already got the file name as the result of an 'answer' command, can't I do something like :

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put the filesize of tFile into tSize

RRobert · Post by **RRobert** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:27 pm

See Obtaining the size of a file.

Robert

Andycal · Post by **Andycal** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:56 pm

Blimey, great thread!

Just goes to show, there are many ways to skin this cat. Odd though, with a language that offers so many ways to do very simple things in one-liners, it's amazing it's such a faff to so something like get a file size.

Got it working now though, and I guess I learned something!