User Commands                                             STAT(1)



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




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     %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




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     %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.

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/>
     Report        stat        translation        bugs         to
     <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2010 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  redistri-
     bute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
     law.

SEE ALSO
     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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