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stat - display file or file system status
stat [OPTION] FILE...
Display file or file system status.
- -L, --dereference
- follow links
- -f, --file-system
- display file system status instead of file status
- -c --format=FORMAT
- use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a newline after
each use of FORMAT
- --printf=FORMAT
- like --format, but interpret backslash escapes,
and do not output a mandatory trailing newline. If you want a newline, include
\n in FORMAT.
- -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 --file-system):
- %a
- Access rights in octal
- %A
- Access rights in human readable form
- %b
- Number of blocks allocated (see
%B)
- %B
- The size in bytes of each block reported by %b
- %C
- SELinux security
context string
- %d
- Device number in decimal
- %D
- Device number in hex
- %f
- Raw
mode in hex
- %F
- File type
- %g
- Group ID of owner
- %G
- Group name of owner
- %h
- Number of hard links
- %i
- Inode number
- %n
- File name
- %N
- Quoted file name with
dereference if symbolic link
- %o
- I/O block size
- %s
- Total size, in bytes
- %t
- Major device type in hex
- %T
- Minor device type in hex
- %u
- User ID of owner
- %U
- User name of owner
- %x
- Time of last access
- %X
- Time of last access as
seconds since Epoch
- %y
- Time of last modification
- %Y
- Time of last modification
as seconds since Epoch
- %z
- Time of last change
- %Z
- Time of last change as
seconds since Epoch
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
- %C
- SELinux security context string
- %i
- File System ID in
hex
- %l
- Maximum length of filenames
- %n
- File name
- %s
- Block size (for faster
transfers)
- %S
- Fundamental block size (for block counts)
- %t
- Type in hex
- %T
- Type in human readable form
NOTE: your shell may have its own version
of stat, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer
to your shell’s documentation for details about the options it supports.
Written by Michael Meskes.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
stat(2)
The full
documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and
stat programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info coreutils
’stat invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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