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Re: wait until the file is done


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: wait until the file is done
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:20:04 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:10:18AM -0700, Russell Lewis wrote:
> Any reason to use wc -c over ls -al?  Is one worse or better, or are they
> more or less the same?  Maybe ls output requires more parsing?

wc -c < "$file"   does not require any parsing.  You get the size and
nothing more.



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