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methuselah
methuselah

Reputation: 13206

Check file size is larger than 1.6GB

I have the following step in my Bash code which checks to see if a file is bigger than 1.6GB:

#!/bin/sh

SIZE_THRESHOLD=1717986918

if [[ $(find /home/methuselah/file -type f -size +${SIZE_THRESHOLD}c 2>/dev/null) ]]; then
  somecmdbecausefileisbigger
else
  somecmdbecausefileissmaller
fi

The command somecmdbecausefileisbigger is never triggered even when the file size is greater than 1.6GB. Why is this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 871

Answers (2)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531045

Just use stat (note that your version of stat may differ; check your man page for details):

if [ "$(stat -c '%s' /home/methuselah/file)" -gt "$SIZE_THRESHOLD" ]; then

Upvotes: 1

John Zwinck
John Zwinck

Reputation: 249133

I don't know why your find command doesn't work, but I do know a simpler way to do this:

if [ $(stat -f %z /home/methuselah/file) -gt ${SIZE_THRESHOLD} ]; then

Though unfortunately you have to replace -f %z with -c %s on Linux (the former works on BSD and MacOS).

Upvotes: 1

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