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    The stat command displays detailed status and information about files or file systems on Linux/Unix systems. It can show attributes like size, owner, access permissions, times of last access/modification, and more. Stat supports options like -f to show filesystem status instead of a file's status, and --format to customize the output format. It is useful for retrieving metadata about files and filesystems from the command line.

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    The stat command displays detailed status and information about files or file systems on Linux/Unix systems. It can show attributes like size, owner, access permissions, times of last access/modification, and more. Stat supports options like -f to show filesystem status instead of a file's status, and --format to customize the output format. It is useful for retrieving metadata about files and filesystems from the command line.

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    Linux stat command

    Updated: 01/24/2018 by Computer Hope

    • About stat
    • stat syntax
    • stat examples
    • Related commands
    • Linux and Unix commands help

    About stat
    Displays the detailed status of a particular file or a file system.

    stat syntax
    stat [OPTION]... FILE...

    Options
    -f, --filesystem display filesystem status instead of file status
    -c, --format=FORMAT use the specified FORMAT instead of the default
    -L, --dereference follow links
    -Z, --context print the SELinux security context
    -t, --terse print the information in terse form
    --help display this help and exit
    --version output version information and exit
    The valid format sequences for files (without --filesystem):

    %A Access rights in human readable form


    %a Access rights in octal
    %B The size in bytes of each block reported by '%b'
    %b Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
    %C SELinux security context string
    %D Device number in hex
    %d Device number in decimal
    %F File type
    %f Raw mode in hex
    %G Group name of owner
    %g Group ID of owner
    %h Number of hard links
    %i Inode number
    %N Quoted File name with dereference if symbolic link
    %n File name
    %o IO block size
    %s Total size, in bytes
    %T Minor device type in hex
    %t Major device type in hex
    %U Username of owner
    %u User ID of owner
    %X Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
    %x Time of last access
    %Y Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
    %y Time of last modification
    %Z Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
    %z Time of last change
    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
    %C SELinux security context string
    %d Free file nodes in file system
    %f Free blocks in file system
    %i File System id in hex
    %l Maximum length of file names
    %n File name
    %s Optimal transfer block size
    %T Type in human readable form
    %t Type in hex

    stat examples
    stat index.htm

    Reports the status of file index.htm, displaying results similar to the following output:
    File: `index.htm'
    Size: 17137 Blocks: 40 IO Block: 8192 regular file
    Device: 8h/8d Inode: 23161443 Links: 1
    Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)
    Uid: (17433/comphope) Gid: ( 32/ www)
    Access: 2007-04-03 09:20:18.000000000 -0600
    Modify: 2007-04-01 23:13:05.000000000 -0600
    Change: 2007-04-02
    16:36:21.000000000 -0600

    stat -f /dev/sda

    With the -f option, stat can return the status of an entire file system. Here, it returns the status of the
    first hard disk. Output will resemble the following:
    File: "/dev/sda"
    ID: 0 Namelen: 255 Type: tmpfs
    Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
    Blocks: Total: 2560 Free: 2560 Available: 2560
    Inodes: Total: 126428 Free: 125966

    stat --format "%A" /var/log/syslog

    Display only the access restrictions, in human-readable form, of the system log /var/log/syslog. Output
    will resemble the following:
    -rw-r-----

    ...which indicates that the file is readable and writable by root, readable by the owning group (in this
    case the admin group), and not accessible at all by others.

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