LINUX HACK 26

Hack 26. Stat Command

Stat command can be used either to check the status/properties of a single file or the filesystem.

Display statistics of a file or directory.

$  stat  /etc/my.cnf
	File:	`/etc/my.cnf'
	Size:	346  Blocks:  16  IO  Block:  4096			regular  file
Device:		801h/2049d	Inode:  279856		Links:  1
Access:		(0644/-rw-r--r--)    Uid:  (		0/	root)	Gid:
(	0/	root)
Access:		2009-01-01  02:58:30.000000000  -0800
Modify:		2006-06-01  20:42:27.000000000  -0700
Change:		2007-02-02  14:17:27.000000000  -0800
$  stat  /home/ramesh
	File:	`/home/ramesh'
	Size:	4096	Blocks:  8		IO  Block:
4096		directory
Device:		803h/2051d	Inode:  5521409		Links:  7
Access:		(0755/drwxr-xr-x)    Uid:  (    401/ramesh)				Gid:  (
401/ramesh)

Access:  2009-01-01  12:17:42.000000000  -0800

Modify:  2009-01-01  12:07:33.000000000  -0800

Change:  2009-01-09  12:07:33.000000000  -0800

Display the status of the filesystem using option –f
$  stat  -f  /
File:	"/"
ID:	0	Namelen:	255	Type:  ext2/ext3
Blocks:	Total:  2579457		Free:  2008027		Available:
1876998		Size:  4096
Inodes:	Total:  1310720		Free:  1215892