Windows command for file size only

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Is there a Windows command that will output the size in bytes of a specified file like this    gt  filesize test jpg 65212   I know that the dir command outputs this information  but it outputs other information also   I could easily write such a program  but I would prefer to use a native Windows command if possible  or only what is available in a fresh install of Windows nbsp XP

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Use a function to get rid off some limitation in the  z operator  It is especially useful with a for loop    echo off set size 0 call  filesize  C  backup 20120714-0035 error log  echo file size is  size  goto  eof     Set filesize of first argument in  size  variable  and return  filesize   set size   z1   exit  b 0

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In PowerShell you can do    imageObj   New-Object System IO FileInfo  C  test jpg        imageObj Length

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This is not exactly what you were asking about and it can only be used from the command line  and may be useless in a batch file   but one quick way to check file size is just to use dir    gt  dir Microsoft WindowsAzure Storage xml   Results in   Directory of C  PathToTheFile  08 10 2015  10 57 AM         2 905 897 Microsoft WindowsAzure Storage xml                1 File s       2 905 897 bytes                0 Dir s   759 192 064 000 bytes free

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If you are inside a batch script  you can use argument variable tricks to get the filesize   filesize bat    echo off echo   z1   This gives results like the ones you suggest in your question   Type  help call   at the command prompt for all of the crazy variable manipulation options  Also see this article for more information   Edit  This only works in Windows 2000 and later

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Try forfiles   forfiles  p C  Temp  m file1 txt  c  cmd  c echo  fsize    The forfiles command runs command c for each file m in directory p   The variable  fsize is replaced with the size of each file   If the file C  Temp file1 txt is 27 bytes  forfiles runs this command   cmd  c echo 27   Which prints 27 to the screen   As a side-effect  it clears your screen as if you had run the cls command

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If you don t want to do this in a batch script  you can do this from the command line like this   for  I in  test jpg  do  echo   zI   Ugly  but it works  You can also pass in a file mask to get a listing for more than one file   for  I in    doc  do  echo   znI   Will display the size  file name of each  DOC file

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Since you re using Windows nbsp XP  Windows PowerShell is an option    Get-Item filespec   Length    or as a function  function Get-FileLength    Get-Item  args  Length   Get-FileLength filespec

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C   gt FORFILES   C  cmd  c echo  fname  fsize    C   gt FORFILES      FORFILES   P pathname    M searchmask    S             C command    D      -   MM dd yyyy   dd    Description      Selects a file  or set of files  and executes a     command on that file  This is helpful for batch jobs   Parameter List       P    pathname      Indicates the path to start searching                          The default folder is the current working                         directory

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Create a file named filesize cmd  and put into folder C  Windows System32     echo   z1

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This is not exactly what you were asking about and it can only be used from the command line  and may be useless in a batch file   but one quick way to check file size is just to use dir    gt  dir Microsoft WindowsAzure Storage xml   Results in   Directory of C  PathToTheFile  08 10 2015  10 57 AM         2 905 897 Microsoft WindowsAzure Storage xml                1 File s       2 905 897 bytes                0 Dir s   759 192 064 000 bytes free

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Since you re using Windows nbsp XP  Windows PowerShell is an option    Get-Item filespec   Length    or as a function  function Get-FileLength    Get-Item  args  Length   Get-FileLength filespec

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In a batch file  the below works for local files  but fails for files on network hard drives  for   I in   test jpg   do  set filesize   z1   However  it s inferior code  because it doesn t work for files saved on a network drive  for example    Nas test jpg and   192 168 2 40 test jpg   The below code works for files in any location  and I wrote it myself   I m sure there are more efficient ways of doing this using VBScript  or PowerShell or whatever  but I didn t want to do any of that  good ol  batch for me   set file C  Users Admin Documents test jpg set  a filesize  set fileExclPath  file        onemoretime set fileExclPath2  fileExclPath      set fileExclPath  fileExclPath2      if  i   fileExclPath   NEQ   fileExclPath2   goto onemoretime  dir  s  a-d   workingdir   gt   temp  temp txt  findstr  C   fileExclPath     temp  temp txt   gt   temp  temp2 txt   set  p filesize   lt   temp  temp2 txt   echo set filesize   filesize   fileExclPath  ext      gt   temp  temp bat  call   temp  temp bat    RemoveTrailingSpace if  i   filesize  -1   EQU     set filesize  filesize  0 -1  if  i   filesize  -1   EQU     goto RemoveTrailingSpace   onemoretime2 set filesize2  filesize      set filesize  filesize2      if  i   filesize   NEQ   filesize2   goto onemoretime2  set filesize  filesize     echo  filesize  bytes  SET  a filesizeMB  filesize  1024 1024 echo  filesizeMB  MB  SET  a filesizeGB  filesize  1024 1024 1024 echo  filesizeGB  GB

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Taken from here   The following command finds folders that are greater than 100 MB in size on the D  drive   diruse  s  m  q 100  d d    The  s option causes subdirectories to be searched  the  m option displays disk usage in megabytes  the  q 100 option causes folders that are greater than 100 MB to be marked  and the  d option displays only folders that exceed the threshold specified by  q   Use the diskuse command to find files over a certain size  The following command displays files over 100 MB in size on the D  drive   diskuse D   x 104857600  v  s   The  x 104857600 option causes files over 104 857 600 bytes to be displayed and is valid only if you include the  v option  verbose   The  s option means subdirectories from the specified path  in this case  the D  drive  are searched   Using VBScript    This code finds all files over a certain size    ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------ strComputer       lt ServerName gt      intSizeBytes   1024   1024   500      500 MB   ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- set objWMI   GetObject  winmgmts      amp  strComputer  amp    root cimv2   set colFiles   objWMI ExecQuery         Select   from CIM DataFile where FileSize  gt      amp  intSizeBytes  amp       for each objFile in colFiles     Wscript Echo objFile Name  amp        amp  objFile Filesize   1024   1024  amp   MB  next

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In PowerShell you can do    imageObj   New-Object System IO FileInfo  C  test jpg        imageObj Length

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If you don t want to do this in a batch script  you can do this from the command line like this   for  I in  test jpg  do  echo   zI   Ugly  but it works  You can also pass in a file mask to get a listing for more than one file   for  I in    doc  do  echo   znI   Will display the size  file name of each  DOC file

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Use a function to get rid off some limitation in the  z operator  It is especially useful with a for loop    echo off set size 0 call  filesize  C  backup 20120714-0035 error log  echo file size is  size  goto  eof     Set filesize of first argument in  size  variable  and return  filesize   set size   z1   exit  b 0

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In PowerShell you can do    imageObj   New-Object System IO FileInfo  C  test jpg        imageObj Length

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Try forfiles   forfiles  p C  Temp  m file1 txt  c  cmd  c echo  fsize    The forfiles command runs command c for each file m in directory p   The variable  fsize is replaced with the size of each file   If the file C  Temp file1 txt is 27 bytes  forfiles runs this command   cmd  c echo 27   Which prints 27 to the screen   As a side-effect  it clears your screen as if you had run the cls command

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Since you re using Windows nbsp XP  Windows PowerShell is an option    Get-Item filespec   Length    or as a function  function Get-FileLength    Get-Item  args  Length   Get-FileLength filespec

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If you don t want to do this in a batch script  you can do this from the command line like this   for  I in  test jpg  do  echo   zI   Ugly  but it works  You can also pass in a file mask to get a listing for more than one file   for  I in    doc  do  echo   znI   Will display the size  file name of each  DOC file

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C   gt FORFILES   C  cmd  c echo  fname  fsize    C   gt FORFILES      FORFILES   P pathname    M searchmask    S             C command    D      -   MM dd yyyy   dd    Description      Selects a file  or set of files  and executes a     command on that file  This is helpful for batch jobs   Parameter List       P    pathname      Indicates the path to start searching                          The default folder is the current working                         directory

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If you are inside a batch script  you can use argument variable tricks to get the filesize   filesize bat    echo off echo   z1   This gives results like the ones you suggest in your question   Type  help call   at the command prompt for all of the crazy variable manipulation options  Also see this article for more information   Edit  This only works in Windows 2000 and later

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If you don t want to do this in a batch script  you can do this from the command line like this   for  I in  test jpg  do  echo   zI   Ugly  but it works  You can also pass in a file mask to get a listing for more than one file   for  I in    doc  do  echo   znI   Will display the size  file name of each  DOC file

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If you are inside a batch script  you can use argument variable tricks to get the filesize   filesize bat    echo off echo   z1   This gives results like the ones you suggest in your question   Type  help call   at the command prompt for all of the crazy variable manipulation options  Also see this article for more information   Edit  This only works in Windows 2000 and later

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Since you re using Windows nbsp XP  Windows PowerShell is an option    Get-Item filespec   Length    or as a function  function Get-FileLength    Get-Item  args  Length   Get-FileLength filespec

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Taken from here   The following command finds folders that are greater than 100 MB in size on the D  drive   diruse  s  m  q 100  d d    The  s option causes subdirectories to be searched  the  m option displays disk usage in megabytes  the  q 100 option causes folders that are greater than 100 MB to be marked  and the  d option displays only folders that exceed the threshold specified by  q   Use the diskuse command to find files over a certain size  The following command displays files over 100 MB in size on the D  drive   diskuse D   x 104857600  v  s   The  x 104857600 option causes files over 104 857 600 bytes to be displayed and is valid only if you include the  v option  verbose   The  s option means subdirectories from the specified path  in this case  the D  drive  are searched   Using VBScript    This code finds all files over a certain size    ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------ strComputer       lt ServerName gt      intSizeBytes   1024   1024   500      500 MB   ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- set objWMI   GetObject  winmgmts      amp  strComputer  amp    root cimv2   set colFiles   objWMI ExecQuery         Select   from CIM DataFile where FileSize  gt      amp  intSizeBytes  amp       for each objFile in colFiles     Wscript Echo objFile Name  amp        amp  objFile Filesize   1024   1024  amp   MB  next

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In PowerShell you can do    imageObj   New-Object System IO FileInfo  C  test jpg        imageObj Length

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In PowerShell  you should do this    Get-ChildItem C  TEMP file1 txt  Length

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Create a file named filesize cmd  and put into folder C  Windows System32     echo   z1

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In a batch file  the below works for local files  but fails for files on network hard drives  for   I in   test jpg   do  set filesize   z1   However  it s inferior code  because it doesn t work for files saved on a network drive  for example    Nas test jpg and   192 168 2 40 test jpg   The below code works for files in any location  and I wrote it myself   I m sure there are more efficient ways of doing this using VBScript  or PowerShell or whatever  but I didn t want to do any of that  good ol  batch for me   set file C  Users Admin Documents test jpg set  a filesize  set fileExclPath  file        onemoretime set fileExclPath2  fileExclPath      set fileExclPath  fileExclPath2      if  i   fileExclPath   NEQ   fileExclPath2   goto onemoretime  dir  s  a-d   workingdir   gt   temp  temp txt  findstr  C   fileExclPath     temp  temp txt   gt   temp  temp2 txt   set  p filesize   lt   temp  temp2 txt   echo set filesize   filesize   fileExclPath  ext      gt   temp  temp bat  call   temp  temp bat    RemoveTrailingSpace if  i   filesize  -1   EQU     set filesize  filesize  0 -1  if  i   filesize  -1   EQU     goto RemoveTrailingSpace   onemoretime2 set filesize2  filesize      set filesize  filesize2      if  i   filesize   NEQ   filesize2   goto onemoretime2  set filesize  filesize     echo  filesize  bytes  SET  a filesizeMB  filesize  1024 1024 echo  filesizeMB  MB  SET  a filesizeGB  filesize  1024 1024 1024 echo  filesizeGB  GB

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If you are inside a batch script  you can use argument variable tricks to get the filesize   filesize bat    echo off echo   z1   This gives results like the ones you suggest in your question   Type  help call   at the command prompt for all of the crazy variable manipulation options  Also see this article for more information   Edit  This only works in Windows 2000 and later

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In PowerShell  you should do this    Get-ChildItem C  TEMP file1 txt  Length

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