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.TH STAT "1" "October 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.20" "User Commands"
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stat \- display file or file system status
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE\fR...
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Display file or file system status.
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\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-dereference\fR
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\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\-system\fR
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display file system status instead of file status
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\fB\-c\fR \fB\-\-format\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
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use the specified FORMAT instead of the default;
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output a newline after each use of FORMAT
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\fB\-\-printf\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
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like \fB\-\-format\fR, but interpret backslash escapes,
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and do not output a mandatory trailing newline.
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If you want a newline, include \en in FORMAT
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\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-terse\fR
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print the information in terse form
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display this help and exit
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output version information and exit
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The valid format sequences for files (without \fB\-\-file\-system\fR):
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access rights in octal
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access rights in human readable form
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number of blocks allocated (see %B)
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the size in bytes of each block reported by %b
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SELinux security context string
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device number in decimal
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quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
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optimal I/O transfer size hint
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major device type in hex
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minor device type in hex
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time of file birth, human\-readable; \- if unknown
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time of file birth, seconds since Epoch; 0 if unknown
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time of last access, human\-readable
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time of last access, seconds since Epoch
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time of last modification, human\-readable
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time of last modification, seconds since Epoch
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time of last change, human\-readable
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time of last change, seconds since Epoch
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Valid format sequences for file systems:
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free blocks available to non\-superuser
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total data blocks in file system
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total file nodes in file system
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free file nodes in file system
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free blocks in file system
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file system ID in hex
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maximum length of filenames
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block size (for faster transfers)
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fundamental block size (for block counts)
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file system type in hex
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file system type in human readable form
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NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes
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the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
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for details about the options it supports.
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Written by Michael Meskes.
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Report stat bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
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GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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Report stat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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The full documentation for
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is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.B info coreutils \(aqstat invocation\(aq
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should give you access to the complete manual.
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