stat -- display file or file system status
Name
stat - display file or file system statusSynopsis
stat [OPTION]... FILE...Description
Display file or file system status.
- -L, --dereference
- follow links
- -Z, --context
- print the SELinux security context
- -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
- %C
- SELinux security context string
- %d
- Device number in decimal
- %D
- Device number in hex
- %f
- Raw mode in hex
- %F
- File type
- %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
- %C
- SELinux security context string
- %i
- File System ID in hex
- %l
- Maximum length of filenames
- %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.