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 >> Andreas Kiel Spherico Nelkenstr. 25 D-76135 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49 (0)721 183 9753 eFax: +1 650 897 8094 eMail: [log in to unmask] http://spherico.com/filmtools -- workflow tools for FCP