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NAME

stat - display file or filesystem status

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SYNOPSIS

stat [OPTION] FILE...

DESCRIPTION

Display file or filesystem status.
-f, --filesystem
  display filesystem status instead of file status
-c --format=FORMAT
  use the specified FORMAT instead of the default
-L, --dereference
  follow links
-Z, --context
  print the security context information if available
-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 --filesystem):
%A Access rights in human readable form
%a Access rights in octal
%B The size in bytes of each block reported by ‘%b’
%b Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
%D Device number in hex
%d Device number in decimal
%F File type
%f Raw mode in hex
%G Group name of owner
%g Group ID of owner
%h Number of hard links
%i Inode number
%N Quoted File name with dereference if symbolic link
%n File name
%o IO block size
%s Total size, in bytes
%T Minor device type in hex
%t Major device type in hex
%U User name of owner
%u User ID of owner
%X Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
%x Time of last access
%Y Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
%y Time of last modification
%Z Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
%z Time of last change
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 - Security context in SELinux %i File System id in hex %l Maximum length of filenames %n File name %s Optimal transfer block size %T Type in human readable form %t Type in hex

AUTHOR

Written by Michael Meskes.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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
should give you access to the complete manual.
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