Linux size Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples) | Linux Today

Linux size Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples)

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Muhammad Arul
Jan 9, 2018

As some of you might already know, an object or executable file in Linux consists of several sections (like txt and data). In case you want to know the size of each section, there exists a command line utility – dubbed size – that provides you this information.

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