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 |
AUTHOR
Written by Michael Meskes.
REPORTING BUGS
Report stat bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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.
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 coreutils 'stat invocation' | |