User Commands                                             STAT(1)



NAME
     stat - display file or file system status

SYNOPSIS
     stat [OPTION] FILE...

DESCRIPTION
     Display file or file system status.

     -L, --dereference
          follow links

     -f, --file-system
          display file system status instead of file status

     -c  --format=FORMAT
          use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output
          a newline after each use of FORMAT

     --printf=FORMAT
          like --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and  do
          not output a mandatory trailing newline.  If you want a
          newline, include \n in FORMAT.

     -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
     --file-system):

     %a   Access rights in octal

     %A   Access rights in human readable form

     %b   Number of blocks allocated (see %B)

     %B   The size in bytes of each block reported by %b

     %d   Device number in decimal

     %D   Device number in hex

     %f   Raw mode in hex

     %F   File type




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     %g   Group ID of owner

     %G   Group name of owner

     %h   Number of hard links

     %i   Inode number

     %n   File name

     %N   Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link

     %o   I/O block size

     %s   Total size, in bytes

     %t   Major device type in hex

     %T   Minor device type in hex

     %u   User ID of owner

     %U   User name of owner

     %x   Time of last access

     %X   Time of last access as seconds since Epoch

     %y   Time of last modification

     %Y   Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch

     %z   Time of last change

     %Z   Time of last change as seconds since Epoch

     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

     %d   Free file nodes in file system

     %f   Free blocks in file system

     %i   File System ID in hex

     %l   Maximum length of filenames




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     %n   File name

     %s   Block size (for faster transfers)

     %S   Fundamental block size (for block counts)

     %t   Type in hex

     %T   Type in human readable form

     NOTE: your shell may have its own  version  of  stat,  which
     usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer
     to your shell's documentation for details about the  options
     it supports.

AUTHOR
     Written by Michael Meskes.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     stat(2)

     The full documentation for stat is maintained as  a  Texinfo
     manual.    If  the  info  and  stat  programs  are  properly
     installed at your site, the command

          info stat

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:













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       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.












































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