Gábor DANI
Reputation: 2135
How can two 100% identical files have different sizes?
I have two 100% identical empty .sh shell script files on Mac:
- encrypt.sh: 299 bytes
- decrypt.sh: 13 bytes (Actually this size is correct, since I have 13 bytes: 11 character + two new line)
The contents of encrypt.sh and its hexdump:
The contents of decrypt.sh and its hexdump:
The file info window of encrypt.sh:
The file info window of decrypt.sh:
They have the exact same hexdump, then how is it possible that they have different sizes?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 332
Answers (1)
jlliagre
Reputation: 30823
Mac OS X file system is implementing forks, so the larger one is likely having something specific stored in its resource fork.
Use ls -l@ to get more details.
Upvotes: 1
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