stat - display file or file system status
stat [OPTION]... FILE...
STAT(1) 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 new- line after each use of FORMAT --printf=FORMAT like --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not out- put 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 %m mount point %n file name %N quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link %o optimal I/O transfer size hint %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 %w time of file birth, human-readable; - if unknown %W time of file birth, seconds since Epoch; 0 if unknown %x time of last access, human-readable %X time of last access, seconds since Epoch %y time of last modification, human-readable %Y time of last modification, seconds since Epoch %z time of last change, human-readable %Z time of last change, 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 %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 file system type in hex %T file system type in human readable form NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually super- sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu- mentation 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) 2012 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. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------+ |Availability | file/gnu-coreutils | +---------------+--------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------+ 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. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core- utils-8.16.tar.xz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. GNU coreutils 8.16 March 2012 STAT(1)