On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 1:37 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> > On 2020-Mar-11 20:53:12 -0400, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
> >
> >> I felt -s was a redundant "kindasorta -l".
> >
> > Except they are reporting completely different things - consider sparse
> > files or filesystems (like ZFS) that support compression.
>
> I was under the impression that -s simply showed the file size divided by
> 512 and didn't account for sparseness or compression.
>

Stat returns two values. The offset of the last byte and the number of
blocks allocated to the file. Useful if you have a sparse file too...

Warner

(Of the filesystems I frequently work with, one of them does actually
> support sparseness (ProDOS).)
>
> -uso.
>