From eb0f78fc160af9b7d28da975b78b89260cfc0742 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolas Grottendieck <git@nikolasgrottendieck.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:17:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] improve gz function

See https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/pull/1044
---
 stow/shell/dot-functions | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stow/shell/dot-functions b/stow/shell/dot-functions
index 07c5796d42..1d885cf5f6 100644
--- a/stow/shell/dot-functions
+++ b/stow/shell/dot-functions
@@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ function server() {
 # Compare original and gzipped file size
 function gz() {
 	local origsize gzipsize ratio
-	origsize=$(wc -c <"${1}")
+	origsize=$(
+ 		stat -Lf"%z" -- "$1" 2> /dev/null; # macOS `stat`
+ 		stat -Lc"%s" -- "$1" 2> /dev/null; # GNU `stat`
+ 	);
 	gzipsize=$(gzip -c "${1}" | wc -c)
 	ratio=$(echo "${gzipsize} * 100 / ${origsize}" | bc -l)
 	printf "orig: %d bytes\n" "${origsize}"