stat | Cheatsheet¶

Print folder, user, group and octal permissions of all files in ~/¶

stat -c '%n %U %G %n %a' $HOME

Print permissions in octal¶

stat -c %a %n $HOME

Simulate Dolphin explorers default setup¶

stat -c '%n %s %U %G %a %z' $HOME/* \
    |awk '//{printf "%10s %100s %10s %10s %10s %10s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6 }' \
    |column -t -N Path,Size,User,Group,Perm,Modified \
    |sed "1,2 i $(printf %85s\
    |tr ' ' '=')"

Print the inode number¶

stat -c %i $HOME

Print the number of hard links¶

stat -c %h $HOME

Print the file type¶

stat -c %F $HOME

Print the file's total size in bytes¶

stat -c %s $HOME

Print the time of last access¶

stat -c %x $HOME

Print the time of last modification¶

stat -c %y $HOME

Print the time of last change¶

stat -c %z $HOME

Print the I/O block size¶

stat -c %o $HOME

Print the number of blocks allocated¶

stat -c %b $HOME