Name
stat — display file or file system status
Synopsis
stat [OPTION] FILE...
DESCRIPTION
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
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Note |
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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. |
SEE ALSO
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 stat
should give you access to the complete manual.
| COPYRIGHT |
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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. |