Version Control Software
Lele Gaifax
lele at metapensiero.it
Sun Jun 16 11:48:31 EDT 2013
Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> In article <mailman.3442.1371389433.3114.python-list at python.org>,
> Chris Kwpolska Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (Im using wc -c to count the bytes in all files there are. du is
>> unaccurate with files smaller than 4096 bytes.)
>
> It's not that du is not accurate, it's that it's measuring something
> different. It's measuring how much disk space the file is using. For
> most files, that's the number of characters in the file rounded up to a
> full block.
I think âdu -câ emits a number very close to âwc -câ.
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