1 [root@Gin scripts]# man stat
  2 STAT(1)                          User Commands                         STAT(1)
  3 
  4 NAME
  5        stat - display file or file system status
  6 
  7 SYNOPSIS
  8        stat [OPTION]... FILE...
  9 
 10 DESCRIPTION
 11        Display file or file system status.
 12 
 13        -L, --dereference
 14               follow links
 15 
 16 :
 17 STAT(1)                          User Commands                         STAT(1)
 18 
 19 NAME
 20        stat - display file or file system status
 21 
 22 SYNOPSIS
 23        stat [OPTION]... FILE...
 24 
 25 DESCRIPTION
 26        Display file or file system status.
 27 
 28        -L, --dereference
 29               follow links
 30 
 31        -Z, --context
 32               print the SELinux security context
 33 
 34        -f, --file-system
 35               display file system status instead of file status
 36 
 37        -c  --format=FORMAT
 38               use  the  specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a newline
 39               after each use of FORMAT
 40 
 41        --printf=FORMAT
 42               like --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not output a
 43               mandatory  trailing  newline.  If you want a newline, include \n in
 44               FORMAT.
 45 
 46        -t, --terse
 47               print the information in terse form
 48 
 49        --help display this help and exit
 50 
 51        --version
 52               output version information and exit
 53 
 54        The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):
 55 
 56        %a     Access rights in octal
 57 
 58        %A     Access rights in human readable form
 59 
 60        %b     Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
 61 
 62        %B     The size in bytes of each block reported by %b
 63 
 64        %C     SELinux security context string
 65 
 66        %d     Device number in decimal
 67 
 68        %D     Device number in hex
 69 
 70        %f     Raw mode in hex
 71 
 72        %F     File type
 73 
 74        %g     Group ID of owner
 75 
 76        %G     Group name of owner
 77 
 78        %h     Number of hard links
 79 
 80        %i     Inode number
 81 
 82        %n     File name
 83 
 84        %N     Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
 85 
 86        %o     I/O block size
 87 
 88        %s     Total size, in bytes
 89 
 90        %t     Major device type in hex
 91 
 92        %T     Minor device type in hex
 93 
 94        %u     User ID of owner
 95 
 96        %U     User name of owner
 97 
 98        %x     Time of last access
 99 
100        %X     Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
101 
102        %y     Time of last modification
103 
104        %Y     Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
105 
106        %z     Time of last change
107 
108        %Z     Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
109 
110        Valid format sequences for file systems:
111 
112        %a     Free blocks available to non-superuser
113 
114        %b     Total data blocks in file system
115 
116        %c     Total file nodes in file system
117 
118        %d     Free file nodes in file system
119 
120        %f     Free blocks in file system
121 
122        %C     SELinux security context string
123 
124        %i     File System ID in hex
125 
126        %l     Maximum length of filenames
127 
128        %n     File name
129 
130        %s     Block size (for faster transfers)
131 
132        %S     Fundamental block size (for block counts)
133 
134        %t     Type in hex
135 
136        %T     Type in human readable form
137 
138        NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat,  which  usually  super-
139        sedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell’s documenta-
140        tion for details about the options it supports.
141 
142 AUTHOR
143        Written by Michael Meskes.
144 
145 REPORTING BUGS
146        Report stat bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
147        GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
148        General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
149        Report stat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
150 
151 COPYRIGHT
152        Copyright ? 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL
153        version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
154        This  is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There
155        is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
156 
157 SEE ALSO
158        stat(2)
159 
160        The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
161        info and stat programs are properly installed at your site, the command
162 
163               info coreutils ‘stat invocation‘
164 
165        should give you access to the complete manual.
166 
167 GNU coreutils 8.4                October 2014                          STAT(1)