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stat

Display file status. More information: https://ss64.com/osx/stat.html.
  • Show file properties such as size, permissions, creation and access dates among others:
    stat {{path/to/file}}
  • Same as above but verbose (more similar to Linux's stat):
    stat -x {{path/to/file}}
  • Show only octal file permissions:
    stat -f %Mp%Lp {{path/to/file}}
  • Show owner and group of the file:
    stat -f "%Su %Sg" {{path/to/file}}
  • Show the size of the file in bytes:
    stat -f "%z %N" {{path/to/file}}

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