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stat — Display file status. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/stat.1.html>.
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stat command: Display file status. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/stat.1.html>.Solution
stat — Display file status. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/stat.1.html>.Show file properties such as size, permissions, creation date, and access date among others:
stat {{path/to/file}}Same as above but verbose (more similar to Linux's
stat):stat -x {{path/to/file}}Show only octal file permissions:
stat -f %Mp%Lp {{path/to/file}}Show owner and group of the file:
stat -f "%Su %Sg" {{path/to/file}}Show the size of the file in bytes:
stat -f "%z %N" {{path/to/file}}Code Snippets
Show file properties such as size, permissions, creation date, and access date among others
stat {{path/to/file}}Same as above but verbose (more similar to Linux's `stat`)
stat -x {{path/to/file}}Show only octal file permissions
stat -f %Mp%Lp {{path/to/file}}Show owner and group of the file
stat -f "%Su %Sg" {{path/to/file}}Show the size of the file in bytes
stat -f "%z %N" {{path/to/file}}Context
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