stat - display file or filesystem status
SYNOPSIS
stat [-l] [-f] [-v] [-t] file-name [file-name]...
DESCRIPTION
This command displays information about the specified
file(s). You do not need any access rights to the file to
get this information but you need search rights to all
directories named in the path leading to the file.
stat stats the file pointed to by file-name
stat -l is identical to stat, only that for links informa
tion about the files that are obtained by tracing the
links is displayed.
stat -f does not stat the file itself but instead stats
the filesystem where file-name is located.
stat -v prints version information.
stat -t prints the information in terse form, suitable for
parsing by other programs
DISPLAY
stat and stat -l both display the following information:
Device number
Inode number
Access rights
Number of hard links
User ID (and name if available) of owner
Group ID (and name if available) of owner
Device type (if inode device)
Total size, in bytes
Number of blocks allocated
IO block size
Time of last access
Time of last modification
If -f is specified the following information is displayed:
Filesystem type
Block size of the filesystem
Total blocks in the filesystem
Free blocks
Free blocks for non-root user(s)
Total inodes
Free inodes
Maximum length of filenames
BUGS
None known so far.
AUTHORS
Written by Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>, -f added
from statfs by Radovan Garabik <gara
bik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>
SEE ALSO
stat(2), statfs(2)
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