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On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:51:13PM +0100, arden wrote:
> just a quick question=20
>=20
> i know df will tell me the properties of the partition im in, but how do
> i find out how big a signal file is ?

ITYM 'single file':

    % ls -l filename

Where the 5th field in the output is the file size in bytes.
But there are very many other ways to get that information:

    % wc -c filename
    % stat -f %z filename

etc. etc.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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