Stat (command)

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stat display file or file system status

stat -c %h -- YOUR_FILE

stat -c "%a %U:%G %n" /usr/bin/passwd
4701 root:root /usr/bin/passwd

Examples

stat access.log
  File: access.log
  Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: fc11h/64529d	Inode: 8528827     Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (  104/    _apt)   Gid: (  107/messagebus)
Access: 2019-12-31 16:28:22.654021588 +0400
Modify: 2019-12-31 16:27:48.294004369 +0400
Change: 2019-12-31 16:27:50.946005778 +0400
 Birth: -

See also

• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod
• ext4 e2fsck, fsck.ext4, superblock, inode, block size, mkfs.ext4 tune2fs, wipefs, resize2fs stat, extents, Review ext4 journalctl logs. Read-only file system, virt-resize, ACL

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/stat.1.html