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About stat
Display file or filesystem status.
Syntax
stat [OPTION] FILE...
| -f, --filesystem |
display filesystem status
instead of file status |
| -c --format=FORMAT |
use the specified FORMAT instead
of the default |
| -L, --dereference |
follow links |
| -t, --terse |
print the information in terse
form |
| --help |
display this help and exit |
| --version |
output version information and
exit |
The valid format sequences for files (without --filesystem):
| %A |
Access rights in human readable
form |
| %a |
Access rights in octal |
| %B |
The size in bytes of each block
reported by `%b' |
| %b |
Number of blocks allocated (see
%B) |
| %D |
Device number in hex |
| %d |
Device number in decimal |
| %F |
File type |
| %f |
Raw mode in hex |
| %G |
Group name of owner |
| %g |
Group ID of owner |
| %h |
Number of hard links |
| %i |
Inode number |
| %N |
Quoted File name with
dereference if symbolic link |
| %n |
File name |
| %o |
IO block size |
| %s |
Total size, in bytes |
| %T |
Minor device type in hex |
| %t |
Major device type in hex |
| %U |
User name of owner |
| %u |
User ID of owner |
| %X |
Time of last access as seconds
since Epoch |
| %x |
Time of last access |
| %Y |
Time of last modification as
seconds since Epoch |
| %y |
Time of last modification |
| %Z |
Time of last change as seconds
since Epoch |
| %z |
Time of last change |
Valid format sequences for file systems:
| %a |
Free blocks available to non-superuser |
| %b |
Total data blocks in file system |
| %c |
Total file nodes in file system |
| %d |
Free file nodes in file system |
| %f |
Free blocks in file system |
| %i |
File System id in hex |
| %l |
Maximum length of filenames |
| %n |
File name |
| %s |
Optimal transfer block size |
| %T |
Type in human readable form |
| %t |
Type in hex |
Examples
stat index.htm
Output results similar to the example shown below.
File: `index.htm'
Size: 17137 Blocks: 40 IO Block: 8192 regular file
Device: 8h/8d Inode: 23161443 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (17433/comphope) Gid: ( 32/ www)
Access: 2007-04-03 09:20:18.000000000 -0600
Modify: 2007-04-01 23:13:05.000000000 -0600
Change: 2007-04-02 16:36:21.000000000 -0600
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