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stat — Display file and filesystem information. See also: `file`. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/so

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Problem

How to use the stat command: Display file and filesystem information. See also: file. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stat-invocation.html>.

Solution

stat — Display file and filesystem information. See also: file. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stat-invocation.html>.

Display properties about a specific file such as size, permissions, creation date, and access date among others:
stat {{path/to/file}}


Display properties about a specific file, only showing the raw result data without labels:
stat {{[-t|--terse]}} {{path/to/file}}


Display information about the filesystem where a specific file is located:
stat {{[-f|--file-system]}} {{path/to/file}}


Show only octal file permissions:
stat {{[-c|--format]}} "%a %n" {{path/to/file}}


Show the owner and group of a specific file:
stat {{[-c|--format]}} "%U %G" {{path/to/file}}


Show the size of a specific file in bytes:
stat {{[-c|--format]}} "%s %n" {{path/to/file}}

Code Snippets

Display properties about a specific file such as size, permissions, creation date, and access date among others

stat {{path/to/file}}

Display properties about a specific file, only showing the raw result data without labels

stat {{[-t|--terse]}} {{path/to/file}}

Display information about the filesystem where a specific file is located

stat {{[-f|--file-system]}} {{path/to/file}}

Show only octal file permissions

stat {{[-c|--format]}} "%a %n" {{path/to/file}}

Show the owner and group of a specific file

stat {{[-c|--format]}} "%U %G" {{path/to/file}}

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tldr-pages: common/stat

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