STAT(1) 			 User Commands			       STAT(1)



NAME
       stat - display file or file system status

SYNOPSIS
       stat [OPTION] FILE...

DESCRIPTION
       Display file or file system status.

       -L, --dereference
	      follow links

       -Z, --context
	      print the security context

       -f, --file-system
	      display file system status instead of file status

       -c  --format=FORMAT
	      use  the	specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a new
	      line after each use of FORMAT

       --printf=FORMAT
	      like --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not  out
	      put  a  mandatory  trailing  newline.   If  you  want a newline,
	      include \n in FORMAT.

       -t, --terse
	      print the information in terse form

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):

       %a     Access rights in octal

       %A     Access rights in human readable form

       %b     Number of blocks allocated (see %B)

       %B     The size in bytes of each block reported by %b

       %d     Device number in decimal

       %D     Device number in hex

       %f     Raw mode in hex

       %F     File type

       %g     Group ID of owner

       %G     Group name of owner

       %h     Number of hard links

       %i     Inode number

       %n     File name

       %N     Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link

       %o     I/O block size

       %s     Total size, in bytes

       %t     Major device type in hex

       %T     Minor device type in hex

       %u     User ID of owner

       %U     User name of owner

       %x     Time of last access

       %X     Time of last access as seconds since Epoch

       %y     Time of last modification

       %Y     Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch

       %z     Time of last change

       %Z     Time of last change as seconds since Epoch

       Valid format sequences for file systems:

       %a     Free blocks available to non-superuser

       %b     Total data blocks in file system

       %c     Total file nodes in file system

       %d     Free file nodes in file system

       %f     Free blocks in file system

	      %C - Security context in SELinux %i   File System ID in  hex  %l
	      Maximum  length of filenames %n	File name %s   Block size (for
	      faster transfers) %S   Fundamental block size (for block counts)
	      %t   Type in hex %T   Type in human readable form

       NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually super
       sedes the version described here.  Please refer to your	shells	docu
       mentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR
       Written by Michael Meskes.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This  is  free  software.   You may redistribute copies of it under the
       terms	  of	  the	   GNU	    General	  Public       License
       .	 There	is NO WARRANTY, to the
       extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual.   If
       the  info  and  stat  programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

	      info stat

       should give you access to the complete manual.



stat 5.97			 January 2007			       STAT(1)