Show size of a file

snipplet:: files, file size
LastUpdate:: 2010-07-31
Contributor:: Frank Lazzarini
type:: snipplet

This is a simple snippet to echo the size of a file in bytes.

#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=/home/heiko/dummy/packages.txt
FILESIZE=$(wc -c < "$FILENAME")
# non standard way (GNU stat): FILESIZE=$(stat -c%s "$FILENAME")

echo "Size of $FILENAME = $FILESIZE bytes."