| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2018-07-18.

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# Method Stdio.file_size()

Method file_size

  `int file_size(string filename)`

Description

  Give the size of a file. Size -1 indicates that the file either does not exist, or that it is not readable by you. Size -2 indicates that it is a directory, -3 that it is a symlink and -4 that it is a device.

See also

  file_stat() , write_file() , read_bytes()