Re: du strange output on single file

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 07:30:38PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:20:53 +0200,
> Dan <dan@nnnne-o-o-o.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here I found a strange behavior of du:
> >
> > wiz$ ls -lsa index.php
> > 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 user www 7412 Oct 19 2024 index.php
> > wiz$ du index.php
> > 16 index.php <-- this is weird
> > wiz$ du -h index.php
> > 8.0K index.php
> >
> > 7.7 stable
> >
>
> Let me quote a man page du(1):
>
> -k By default, all sizes are reported in 512-byte block counts. The
> -k option causes the numbers to be reported in kilobyte counts.
>
> If you looking a way to have an accurate size of a file in bytes, use wc

Or stat -f %z <file>