Re: [MacPerl] file length

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 2:37 PM -0700 8/21/99, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:
>is there a built in function or module to calculate the length or size of a
>file? I've tried using "read" but haven't been able to get it to work right.
>
>If not how would I go about doing that (finding file length)?


MPPE, p. 270:

   -s

	File exists and has a non-zero size.  Returns size of the file
	in bytes ...
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