stat
Display file and filesystem information. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stat-invocation.html.
- Show file properties such as size, permissions, creation and access dates among others:
stat {{file}}
- Same as above but in a more concise way:
stat -t {{file}}
- Show filesystem information:
stat -f {{file}}
- Show only octal file permissions:
stat -c "%a %n" {{file}}
- Show owner and group of the file:
stat -c "%U %G" {{file}}
- Show the size of the file in bytes:
stat -c "%s %n" {{file}}
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