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
-Z, --context
print security context information for SELinux if available.
--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
%d
Device number in decimal
%C
SELinux security context
%N
Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
%t
Major device type in hex
%T
Minor device type in hex
%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 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
%l
Maximum length of filenames
%s
Block size (for faster transfers)
%S
Fundamental block size (for block counts)
%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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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 stat
should give you access to the complete manual.