Version Control Software

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/16/2013 11:48 AM, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
>
>> In article <mailman.3442.1371389433.3114.python-list at python.org>,
>>   Chris Kwpolska Warrick <kwpolska at 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”.

In Windows Explorer, the Properties box displays both the Size and 'Size 
on disk', in both (KB or MB) and bytes. The block size for the disk I am 
looking at is 4KB, so the Size on disk in KB is a multiple of that.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy