1STAT(1)                          User Commands                         STAT(1)
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NAME

6       stat - display file or file system status
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SYNOPSIS

9       stat [OPTION]... FILE...
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DESCRIPTION

12       Display file or file system status.
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14       Mandatory  arguments  to  long  options are mandatory for short options
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17       -L, --dereference
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20       -f, --file-system
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23       -c  --format=FORMAT
24              use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output  a  new‐
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27       --printf=FORMAT
28              like  --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not out‐
29              put a mandatory trailing newline; if you want a newline, include
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32       -t, --terse
33              print the information in terse form
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35       --help display this help and exit
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37       --version
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40       The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):
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42       %a     access rights in octal
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44       %A     access rights in human readable form
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46       %b     number of blocks allocated (see %B)
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48       %B     the size in bytes of each block reported by %b
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50       %C     SELinux security context string
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52       %d     device number in decimal
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58       %F     file type
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60       %g     group ID of owner
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84       %u     user ID of owner
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88       %w     time of file birth, human-readable; - if unknown
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100       %z     time of last change, human-readable
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102       %Z     time of last change, seconds since Epoch
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104       Valid format sequences for file systems:
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108       %b     total data blocks in file system
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110       %c     total file nodes in file system
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112       %d     free file nodes in file system
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114       %f     free blocks in file system
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116       %i     file system ID in hex
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118       %l     maximum length of filenames
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120       %n     file name
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122       %s     block size (for faster transfers)
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124       %S     fundamental block size (for block counts)
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126       %t     file system type in hex
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130       NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually super‐
131       sedes the version described here.  Please refer to your  shell's  docu‐
132       mentation for details about the options it supports.
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134       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
135       Report stat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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AUTHOR

138       Written by Michael Meskes.
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141       Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU
142       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
143       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
144       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

147       stat(2)
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149       The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual.   If
150       the  info  and  stat  programs are properly installed at your site, the
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153              info coreutils 'stat invocation'
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159GNU coreutils 8.22               October 2018                          STAT(1)
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