Just tried the "ls -s " - it won't work as well.

Thanks
Andreas


On 29.05.2007, at 19:46, Mark Lively wrote:

> What results are you seeing?
>
> There is no real way to know the actual size of a file that is  
> being written.  You can get the allocated size with ls -s
>
> cat /dev/urandom > reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
>
> $ ls -s reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
> 8328 reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
> $ ls -s reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
> 10064 reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
> $ls -s reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
> 15312 reallylongfilenameshoopshoopdedoop.dat
>
>
>
> On May 29, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Andreas Kiel wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I already asked at the ASS list, but it might be better to ask here.
>>
>> I'm a little bit desperate about getting the file size of a busy  
>> file when the file name has more than 31 characters.
>> It always works if the file is written, but not when the file is  
>> busy and that's what I need.
>> I tried a shell script, get eof, size of (info). Always same  
>> behaviour.
>>
>> Anybody any idea why - or how to solve?
>> Sure I could use a temporary name and then re-name the files, but  
>> maybe there is something more elegant.
>>
>> Regards
>> Andreas
>>

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