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2 .TH STAT "1" "April 2010" "GNU coreutils 8.5" "User Commands"
4 stat \- display file or file system status
7 [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE\fR...
9 .\" Add any additional description here
11 Display file or file system status.
13 \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-dereference\fR
16 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\-system\fR
17 display file system status instead of file status
19 \fB\-c\fR \fB\-\-format\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
20 use the specified FORMAT instead of the default;
21 output a newline after each use of FORMAT
23 \fB\-\-printf\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
24 like \fB\-\-format\fR, but interpret backslash escapes,
25 and do not output a mandatory trailing newline.
26 If you want a newline, include \en in FORMAT
28 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-terse\fR
29 print the information in terse form
32 display this help and exit
35 output version information and exit
37 The valid format sequences for files (without \fB\-\-file\-system\fR):
40 Access rights in octal
43 Access rights in human readable form
46 Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
49 The size in bytes of each block reported by %b
52 SELinux security context string
55 Device number in decimal
82 Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
91 Major device type in hex
94 Minor device type in hex
106 Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
109 Time of last modification
112 Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
118 Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
120 Valid format sequences for file systems:
123 Free blocks available to non\-superuser
126 Total data blocks in file system
129 Total file nodes in file system
132 Free file nodes in file system
135 Free blocks in file system
138 SELinux security context string
141 File System ID in hex
144 Maximum length of filenames
150 Block size (for faster transfers)
153 Fundamental block size (for block counts)
159 Type in human readable form
161 NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes
162 the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
163 for details about the options it supports.
165 Written by Michael Meskes.
167 Report stat bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
169 GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
171 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
173 Report stat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
175 Copyright \(co 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
176 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
178 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
179 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
183 The full documentation for
185 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
189 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
191 .B info coreutils \(aqstat invocation\(aq
193 should give you access to the complete manual.