Re: how to get the size of large files ?

[Leo Butler]

vatko <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I had a code in matlab that needed to know the exact size of some data file
> at a certain point. I used the function s = dir(filename) and read the file
> size in s.bytes. But this does not work in octave with very large files. I
> have a file that is ~3.4Go and dir tells me that the file does not exist. I
> also tried stat(), but it gives me an empty array. But both function work
> with small files of a few Mo.
> Is there any other way I can get the size of a file ?
>
> thanks

You can use the system command, e.g.

function s = fsize(file)
 [x,s]=system(sprintf("ls -s --block-size=1 %s",file));
 s=strtok(s," ");
endfunction

This returns a string containing the file size. You can use `eval' on
that string to get a float.

Note that what you are seeing is a bug in the way that octave is
populating the structure in a call to stat. Leo