Get size of file on remote server

Question

I have a requirement where I need to do SFTP connection to remote server, get the size of the file on remote server and depending on the size, i need to get the file onto local server. Is there any command in SFTP to get the size of the file.

Answer 1

If you'd like the size output to be human readable, try: ls -lah

Answer 2

You can get the file size of the remote files using the ls command by passing parameters.

To get Size of the file pass ls -l

To get Size of the file (HIdden files included) ls -al

To get it in human readable format pass ls -lh or ls -alh