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Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:

> In article <mailman.3442.1371389433.3114.python-list@python.org>,
>  Chris Kwpolska Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (I€™m 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 “du -c” emits a number very close to “wc -c”.

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ciao, lele.
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lele@metapensiero.it  |                 -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.

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