Displays file or file system status
The stat command is used to display status information about files. The output of the stat command is more detailed than that of the ls command.
stat (options) (parameters)
-L: Support symbolic links;
-f: Display file system status instead of file status;
-t: Output information in a concise format;
--help: Display help information for the command;
--version: Display version information for the command.
File: Specify the regular file or device file corresponding to the file system to display information for.
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l myfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-10-09 myfile
[root@localhost ~]# stat myfile
file: “myfile”
Size: 0 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 Regular empty file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 194805815 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2010-12-12 12:22:35.000000000 +0800
Modify: 2010-10-09 20:44:21.000000000 +0800
Change: 2010-10-09 20:44:21.000000000 +0800
[root@localhost ~]# stat -f myfile
File: "myfile"
id: 0 Namelen: 255 type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 241555461 free: 232910771 Available: 220442547
Inodes: Total: 249364480 Free: 249139691
[root@localhost ~]# stat -t myfile
myfile 0 8 81a4 0 0 fd00 194805815 1 0 0 1292127755 1286628261 1286628261 4096