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2 .TH STAT "1" "May 2014" "GNU coreutils 8.21" "User Commands"
4 stat \- display file or file system status
7 [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE\fR...
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11 Display file or file system status.
13 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
15 \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-dereference\fR
18 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\-system\fR
19 display file system status instead of file status
21 \fB\-c\fR \fB\-\-format\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
22 use the specified FORMAT instead of the default;
23 output a newline after each use of FORMAT
25 \fB\-\-printf\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
26 like \fB\-\-format\fR, but interpret backslash escapes,
27 and do not output a mandatory trailing newline.
28 If you want a newline, include \en in FORMAT
30 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-terse\fR
31 print the information in terse form
34 display this help and exit
37 output version information and exit
39 The valid format sequences for files (without \fB\-\-file\-system\fR):
42 access rights in octal
45 access rights in human readable form
48 number of blocks allocated (see %B)
51 the size in bytes of each block reported by %b
54 SELinux security context string
57 device number in decimal
87 quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
90 optimal I/O transfer size hint
96 major device type in hex
99 minor device type in hex
108 time of file birth, human\-readable; \- if unknown
111 time of file birth, seconds since Epoch; 0 if unknown
114 time of last access, human\-readable
117 time of last access, seconds since Epoch
120 time of last modification, human\-readable
123 time of last modification, seconds since Epoch
126 time of last change, human\-readable
129 time of last change, seconds since Epoch
131 Valid format sequences for file systems:
134 free blocks available to non\-superuser
137 total data blocks in file system
140 total file nodes in file system
143 free file nodes in file system
146 free blocks in file system
149 file system ID in hex
152 maximum length of filenames
158 block size (for faster transfers)
161 fundamental block size (for block counts)
164 file system type in hex
167 file system type in human readable form
169 NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes
170 the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
171 for details about the options it supports.
173 Written by Michael Meskes.
175 Report stat bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
177 GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
179 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
181 Report stat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
183 Copyright \(co 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
184 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
186 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
187 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
191 The full documentation for
193 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
197 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
199 .B info coreutils \(aqstat invocation\(aq
201 should give you access to the complete manual.