stat

stat [OPTION]... FILE...

Display file or file system status.

Options

--dereference, -L

follow links

--file-system, -f

display file system status instead of file status

--terse, -t

print the information in terse form

--format=<FORMAT>, -c <FORMAT>

use the specified FORMAT instead of the default;
output a newline after each use of FORMAT

--printf=<FORMAT>

like --format, but interpret backslash escapes,
and do not output a mandatory trailing newline;
if you want a newline, include
in FORMAT

Examples

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}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.