How do I get the size of a file in Perl?
From perl you want to know the size of a file.
Solution 1: file test operators
In perl you can use file test operators. The operator that will provide you with the size of the file is -s:
The output of this might be (depending on the size of test.txt):
Solution 2: The OO way
The module File::stat provides statistics on files:
This would produce identical output to the previous example.