Simple filesize output terminal

Question

Is there a simple command in the terminal (or a command with a usage that I know not) that would output filesize in bytes of a file given a filename parameter?

Solution

You can use the stat command

stat -c '%s' filename

See man stat for details and other options

Or, with du

du -b filename

Comments

[anonymous2]

I like the stat better: it just gives file size as requested. I will accept it as soon as I am allowed to