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stat

Display file and filesystem information. 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 and access dates among others:
    stat {{path/to/file}}
  • Display properties about a specific file such as size, permissions, creation and access dates among others without labels:
    stat --terse {{path/to/file}}
  • Display information about the filesystem where a specific file is located:
    stat --file-system {{path/to/file}}
  • Show only octal file permissions:
    stat --format="%a %n" {{path/to/file}}
  • Show the owner and group of a specific file:
    stat --format="%U %G" {{path/to/file}}
  • Show the size of a specific file in bytes:
    stat --format="%s %n" {{path/to/file}}

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