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Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber
June 2003
Beginner to intermediate
944 pages
43h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

size

Synopsis

                  size [options] [objfile...]

Print the number of bytes of each section of objfile and its total size. If objfile is not specified, a.out is used.

Options

-d

Display the size in decimal and hexadecimal.

--format= format

Imitate the size command from either System V (--format sysv) or BSD (--format berkeley).

--help

Print help message, then exit.

-o

Display the size in octal and hexadecimal.

--radix= num

Specify how to display the size: in hexadecimal and decimal (if num is 10 or 16) or hexadecimal and octal (if num is 8).

-t, --totals

Show object totals. Works only with Berkeley format listings.

--target= bfdname

Specify object format by binary file descriptor name. Use -h for a list of supported object formats.

-x

Display the size in hexadecimal and decimal.

-A

Imitate System V’s size command.

-B

Imitate BSD’s size command.

-V, --version

Print version, then exit.

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