stat command filesize reporting on busybox

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Published on 2012-01-20T15:48:42Z Indexed on 2014/06/03 3:30 UTC
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I'm trying to write a shell script in busybox to check the filesize of a file. Having read that stat is more reliable then ls, I decided to use that, but somehow when using the following command:

stat -c %s filename

I get the following output: 559795. This goes for the following 2 files (shown using ls -la):

0 Jan 20 16:32 foo_empty
4 Jan 20 16:32 foo_not_empty

Anyone know what's happening there? I can just go back to using ls, but I'm not understanding what's happening here, and that's bothering me..

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