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+.\" $NetBSD: stat.1,v 1.48 2025/05/03 21:00:58 kre Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2002-2011 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
+.\" by Andrew Brown and Jan Schaumann.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd May 3, 2025
+.Dt STAT 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm stat
+.Nd display file status
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl FLnq
+.Oo
+.Fl f Ar format |
+.Fl l |
+.Fl r |
+.Fl s |
+.Fl x
+.Oc
+.Op Fl t Ar timefmt
+.Op Ar
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+utility displays information about each file given by
+.Ar file .
+Read, write, or execute permissions for the named file are not required, but
+all directories listed in the pathname leading to the file must be
+searchable.
+.Pp
+If no
+.Ar file
+argument is given,
+.Nm
+displays information about the file descriptor for standard input.
+In this case the
+.Fl L
+option is ignored, and
+.Nm
+uses
+.Xr fstat 2
+rather than
+.Xr lstat 2
+or
+.Xr stat 2
+to obtain information.
+The
+.Sq file name
+(and also the
+.Sq path name )
+in this case is
+.Ql \&(stdin) .
+The file number
+.Pq Ql %@
+will be zero.
+.Pp
+Otherwise the information displayed is obtained by calling
+.Xr lstat 2
+(or
+.Xr stat 2
+with
+.Fl L )
+with each given argument in turn and evaluating the returned structure.
+.Pp
+The default format displays the
+.Fa st_dev ,
+.Fa st_ino ,
+.Fa st_mode ,
+.Fa st_nlink ,
+.Fa st_uid ,
+.Fa st_gid ,
+.Fa st_rdev ,
+.Fa st_size ,
+.Fa st_atime ,
+.Fa st_mtime ,
+.Fa st_ctime ,
+.Fa st_birthtime ,
+.Fa st_blksize ,
+.Fa st_blocks ,
+and
+.Fa st_flags
+fields, in that order.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Fl
+.It Fl F
+As in
+.Xr ls 1 ,
+display a slash
+.Pq Ql /
+immediately after each pathname that is a directory, an
+asterisk
+.Pq Ql *
+after each that is executable, an at sign
+.Pq Ql @
+after each symbolic link, a percent sign
+.Pq Ql %
+after each whiteout, an equal sign
+.Pq Ql =
+after each socket, and a vertical bar
+.Pq Ql \&|
+after each that is a FIFO.
+The use of
+.Fl F
+implies
+.Fl l .
+.It Fl f Ar format
+Display information using the specified format.
+See the
+.Sx FORMATS
+section for a description of valid formats.
+.It Fl L
+Use
+.Xr stat 2
+instead of
+.Xr lstat 2 .
+The information reported by
+.Nm
+will refer to the target of
+.Ar file ,
+if
+.Ar file
+is a symbolic link, rather than to
+.Ar file
+itself.
+If
+.Ar file
+is not a symbolic link,
+.Xr stat 2
+and
+.Xr lstat 2
+give the same results, so this option is essentially
+a no-op in that case.
+If
+.Ar file
+is a symbolic link,
+but the target of that link does not exist, then
+.Nm
+will fall back to using
+.Xr lstat 2
+and display details of the symbolic link itself.
+This is the only situation where, when
+.Fl L
+is used, the resulting data can refer to a symbolic link.
+.It Fl l
+Display output in
+.Ic ls Fl lT
+format.
+.It Fl n
+Do not force a newline to appear at the end of each piece of output.
+.It Fl q
+Suppress failure messages if calls to
+.Xr fstat 2 ,
+.Xr lstat 2 ,
+.Xr readlink 2 ,
+.Xr realpath 3 ,
+or
+.Xr stat 2
+fail.
+.It Fl r
+Display raw information.
+That is, for all the fields in the stat-structure,
+display the raw, numerical value (for example, times in seconds since the
+epoch, etc.)
+.It Fl s
+Display information in
+.Dq shell command
+output format,
+suitable for initializing variables.
+This is equivalent to specifying
+.Bd -literal
+FMT="st_dev=%d st_ino=%i st_mode=%#p st_nlink=%l"
+FMT="$FMT st_uid=%u st_gid=%g st_rdev=%r st_size=%z"
+FMT="$FMT st_atime=%Sa st_mtime=%Sm st_ctime=%Sc"
+FMT="$FMT st_birthtime=%SB st_blksize=%k st_blocks=%b"
+FMT="$FMT st_flags=%f"
+stat -t %s -f "$FMT" .
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The
+.Ar timefmt
+may be altered from the default for
+.Fl s
+.Pq Ql \&%s
+by also using the
+.Fl t
+option.
+Note that if you use a
+.Ar timefmt
+that contains embedded whitespace or shell
+meta-characters,
+you will need to
+include appropriate quoting in the
+.Fl t
+format, or supply an explicit format
+.Pq Fl f ,
+rather than
+.Fl s ,
+with the format containing appropriate quoting so the output remains valid.
+.It Fl t Ar timefmt
+Display timestamps, when to be output in string format,
+using the specified format.
+This format is
+passed directly to
+.Xr strftime 3
+with the extension that
+.Ql %f
+prints nanoseconds if available.
+.It Fl x
+Display information in a more verbose way as seen from some Linux
+distributions.
+.El
+.Ss FORMATS
+Format strings are similar to
+.Xr printf 3
+formats in that they contain character data,
+which is simply output,
+interspersed with data conversions which start with
+.Cm % ,
+are then followed by a sequence of formatting characters, and end in
+a character that selects the datum, the field of the struct stat,
+or other data,
+which is to be formatted.
+If the
+.Cm %
+is immediately followed by one of
+.Cm n ,
+.Cm t ,
+.Cm % ,
+or
+.Cm @ ,
+then a newline character, a tab character, a percent character,
+or the current file number in the argument list is printed.
+Otherwise the string is examined for the following:
+.Pp
+Any of the following optional flags in any order:
+.Bl -tag -width Cm
+.It Cm #
+Selects an alternate output form for string, octal and hexadecimal output.
+String output will be encoded in
+.Xr vis 3
+style.
+Octal output will have a leading zero.
+Non-zero hexadecimal output will have
+.Ql 0x
+prepended to it.
+.It Cm +
+Asserts that a sign indicating whether a number is positive or negative
+should always be printed.
+Non-negative numbers are not usually printed with a sign.
+.It Cm -
+Aligns string output to the left of the field, instead of to the right.
+.It Cm 0
+Sets the fill character for left padding to the 0 character, instead of
+a space.
+.It space
+Reserves a space at the front of non-negative signed output fields.
+A
+.Sq Cm +
+overrides a space if both are used.
+.El
+.Pp
+Then followed by the following fields in the following order:
+.Bl -tag -width Ar
+.It Ar size
+An optional decimal digit string specifying the minimum field width.
+Note that a leading zero is treated as the
+.Sq Cm 0
+flag (above), subsequent embedded zeroes are part of the
+.Ar size .
+.It Ar prec
+An optional precision composed of a decimal point
+.Sq Cm \&.
+and a decimal digit string that indicates the maximum string length,
+the number of digits to appear after the decimal point in floating point
+output, or the minimum number of digits to appear in other numeric output.
+.It Ar fmt
+An optional output format specifier which is one of
+.Cm D ,
+.Cm O ,
+.Cm U ,
+.Cm X ,
+.Cm F ,
+or
+.Cm S .
+These represent signed decimal output, octal output, unsigned decimal
+output, hexadecimal output, floating point output, and string output,
+respectively.
+Some output formats do not apply to all fields.
+Floating point output only applies to timespec fields (the
+.Cm a ,
+.Cm m ,
+and
+.Cm c
+fields).
+.Pp
+The special output format specifier
+.Cm S
+may be used to indicate that the output, if
+applicable, should be in string format.
+May be used in combination with the following field specifiers:
+.Bl -tag -width Cm
+.It Cm a , m , c
+Display date in
+.Xr strftime 3
+format with the extension that
+.Ql %f
+prints nanoseconds if available.
+.It Cm d , r
+Display actual device name.
+.It Cm f
+Display the flags of
+.Ar file
+as in
+.Nm ls Fl ldo .
+.It Cm g , u
+Display group or user name.
+.It Cm p
+Display the mode of
+.Ar file
+symbolically, as in
+.Ic ls -lTd .
+.It Cm N
+Displays the name of
+.Ar file .
+.It Cm T
+Displays the type of
+.Ar file .
+.It Cm R , Y
+Insert a
+.Sq Li \~->\~ \" .Ql, but force quotes even in PS output
+into the output.
+Note that the default output formats for
+.Cm Y
+and
+.Cm R
+are strings, if
+.Cm S
+is specified explicitly, these four characters are prepended.
+.El
+.It Ar sub
+An optional sub field specifier: high, middle, or low.
+Only applies to the
+.Cm d ,
+.Cm N ,
+.Cm p ,
+.Cm r ,
+.Cm T ,
+and
+.Cm z
+output field specifiers.
+It can be one of the following:
+.Bl -tag -width Cm
+.It Cm H
+.Dq High
+subfield of
+.Ar datum\^ :
+.Bl -tag -compact -width Cm
+.It Cm d , r
+Major number for devices
+.It Cm N
+Directory path of the file, similar to what
+.Xr dirname 1
+would show
+.It Cm p
+.Dq User
+bits from the string form of permissions,
+or the file
+.Dq type
+bits from the numeric forms
+.It Cm T
+The long output form of file type
+.It Cm z
+File size, rounded to the nearest gigabyte
+.El
+.It Cm M
+.Dq Middle
+subfield of
+.Ar datum\^ :
+.Bl -tag -compact -width Cm
+.It Cm p
+The
+.Dq group
+bits from the string form of permissions,
+or the
+.Dq suid ,
+.Dq sgid ,
+and
+.Dq sticky
+bits from the numeric forms
+.It Cm z
+File size, rounded to the nearest megabyte
+.El
+.It Cm L
+.Dq Low
+subfield of
+.Ar datum\^ :
+.Bl -tag -compact -width Cm
+.It Cm d , r
+Minor number for devices
+.It Cm N
+Base filename of the file, similar to what
+.Xr basename 1
+would show
+.It Cm p
+The
+.Dq other
+bits from the string form of permissions,
+or the
+.Dq user ,
+.Dq group ,
+and
+.Dq other
+bits from the numeric forms
+.It Cm T
+The
+.Ic ls -F
+style output character for file type (the use of
+.Cm L
+here is optional)
+.It Cm z
+File size, rounded to the nearest kilobyte
+.El
+.El
+.It Ar datum
+A required field specifier, ending the conversion specification,
+being one of the following:
+.Bl -tag -width Cm
+.It Cm d
+Device upon which
+.Ar file
+resides
+.Pq Fa st_dev .
+.It Cm i
+.Ar file Ap s
+inode number
+.Pq Fa st_ino .
+.It Cm p
+File type and permissions
+.Pq Fa st_mode .
+.It Cm l
+Number of hard links to
+.Ar file
+.Pq Fa st_nlink .
+.It Cm u , g
+User-id and group-id of
+.Ar file Ap s
+owner
+.Pq Fa st_uid , st_gid .
+.It Cm r
+Device number for character and block device special files
+.Pq Fa st_rdev .
+.It Cm a , m , c , B
+The time
+.Ar file
+was last accessed or modified, or when its inode was last changed, or
+the birth time of the inode
+.Pq Fa st_atime , st_mtime , st_ctime , st_birthtime .
+.It Cm z
+The size of
+.Ar file
+in bytes
+.Pq Fa st_size .
+.It Cm b
+Number of blocks allocated for
+.Ar file
+.Pq Fa st_blocks .
+.It Cm k
+Optimal file system I/O operation block size
+.Pq Fa st_blksize .
+.It Cm f
+User defined flags for
+.Ar file
+.Pq Fa st_flags .
+.It Cm v
+Inode generation number
+.Pq Fa st_gen .
+.El
+.Pp
+The following five field specifiers are not drawn directly from the
+data in
+.Vt struct stat ,
+but are:
+.Bl -tag -width Cm
+.It Cm N
+The name of the file.
+.It Cm R
+The absolute pathname corresponding to the file.
+.It Cm T
+The file type, either as in
+.Ic ls -F
+or in a more descriptive form if the sub field specifier
+.Cm H
+is given.
+.It Cm Y
+The target of a symbolic link.
+.It Cm Z
+Expands to
+.Dq Ar major Ns Li \&, Ns Ar minor\^
+.Po
+that is,
+.Sq Li %Hr,%-Lr
+.Pc
+for character or block special devices,
+and gives size output
+.Pq Sq Li %z
+for all other file types.
+A specified field width applies to the overall result
+(approximately half each for the two device file sub-fields),
+but precision, output format, and flags are used separately for
+each conversion made (but note the
+.Sq Cm -
+in the
+.Sq Li %-Lr
+conversion.)
+.El
+.El
+.Pp
+Only the
+.Sq Cm %
+and the
+.Ar datum
+(field specifier) are required.
+Most field specifiers default to
+.Cm U
+as an output format, with the
+exception of
+.Cm p
+which defaults to
+.Cm O ;
+.Cm a , m ,
+and
+.Cm c
+which default to
+.Cm D ;
+and
+.Cm Y , T , R ,
+and
+.Cm N ,
+which default to
+.Cm S .
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex -std
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+If no options are specified, the default format is:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+%d %i %Sp %l %Su %Sg %r %z "%Sa" "%Sm" "%Sc" "%SB" %k %b %#Xf %N
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Thus:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+> stat /tmp/bar
+0 78852 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel \(mi1 0 "Jul 8 10:26:03 2004" "Jul 8 10:26:03 2004" "Jul 8 10:28:13 2004" "Jan 1 09:00:00 1970" 16384 0 0 /tmp/bar
+.Ed
+.Pp
+This next example produces output very similar to that from
+.Ic find Ar \&.\|.\|. Ic -ls ,
+except that
+.Xr find 1
+displays the time in a different format, and
+.Xr find 1
+sometimes adds one or more spaces after the comma in
+.Dq Ar major Ns Li \&, Ns Ar minor\^
+for device nodes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> stat -f "%7i %6b %-11Sp %3l %-17Su %-17Sg %9Z %Sm %N%SY" /tmp/bar
+ 78852 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 8 10:26:03 2004 /tmp/bar
+
+> find /tmp/bar -ls -exit
+ 78852 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 8 2004 /tmp/bar
+.Ed
+.Pp
+This example produces output very similar to that from
+.Ic ls -lTd ,
+except that
+.Xr ls 1
+adjusts the column spacing differently when listing multiple files,
+and adds at least one space after the comma in
+.Dq Ar major Ns Li \&, Ns Ar minor\^
+for device nodes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> stat -f "%-11Sp %l %Su %Sg %Z %Sm %N%SY" /tmp/bar
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 8 10:26:03 2004 /tmp/bar
+
+> ls -lTd /tmp/bar
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 8 10:26:03 2004 /tmp/bar
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Given a symbolic link
+.Pa /tmp/foo
+that points to
+.Pa / ,
+you would use
+.Nm
+as follows:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> stat -F /tmp/foo
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 jschauma cs 1 Apr 24 16:37:28 2002 /tmp/foo@ -> /
+
+> stat -LF /tmp/foo
+drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Apr 19 10:57:54 2002 /tmp/foo/
+.Ed
+.Pp
+To initialize some shell variables, you could use the
+.Fl s
+flag as follows:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> csh
+% eval set `stat -s .cshrc`
+% echo $st_size $st_mtime
+1148 1015432481
+
+> sh
+$ eval $(stat -s .profile)
+$ echo $st_size $st_mtime
+1148 1015432481
+.Ed
+.Pp
+In order to get a list of the kind of files including files pointed to if the
+file is a symbolic link, you could use the following format:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ stat -f "%N: %HT%SY" /tmp/*
+/tmp/bar: Symbolic Link -> /tmp/foo
+/tmp/output25568: Regular File
+/tmp/blah: Directory
+/tmp/foo: Symbolic Link -> /
+.Ed
+.Pp
+In order to get a list of the devices, their types and the major and minor
+device numbers, formatted with tabs and line breaks, you could use the
+following format:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+stat -f "Name: %N%n%tType: %HT%n%tMajor: %Hr%n%tMinor: %Lr%n%n" /dev/*
+[...]
+Name: /dev/wt8
+ Type: Block Device
+ Major: 3
+ Minor: 8
+
+Name: /dev/zero
+ Type: Character Device
+ Major: 2
+ Minor: 12
+.Ed
+.Pp
+In order to determine the permissions set on a file separately, you could use
+the following format:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> stat -f "%Sp -> owner=%SHp group=%SMp other=%SLp" .
+drwxr-xr-x -> owner=rwx group=r-x other=r-x
+.Ed
+.Pp
+In order to determine the three files that have been modified most recently,
+you could use the following format:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> stat -f "%m%t%Sm %N" /tmp/* | sort -rn | head -3 | cut -f2-
+Apr 25 11:47:00 2002 /tmp/blah
+Apr 25 10:36:34 2002 /tmp/bar
+Apr 24 16:47:35 2002 /tmp/foo
+.Ed
+.Pp
+User names, group names, and file names that contain spaces
+or other special characters may be encoded in
+.Xr vis 3
+style, using the
+.Sq Cm \&#
+flag:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+> ln -s 'target with spaces' 'link with spaces'
+> stat -f "%#N%#SY" 'link with spaces'
+link\eswith\esspaces -> target\eswith\esspaces
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr basename 1 ,
+.Xr dirname 1 ,
+.Xr find 1 ,
+.Xr ls 1 ,
+.Xr readlink 1 ,
+.Xr fstat 2 ,
+.Xr lstat 2 ,
+.Xr readlink 2 ,
+.Xr stat 2 ,
+.Xr printf 3 ,
+.Xr realpath 3 ,
+.Xr strftime 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+utility appeared in
+.Nx 1.6 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+The
+.Nm
+utility was written by
+.An Andrew Brown
+.Aq atatat@NetBSD.org .
+This man page was written by
+.An Jan Schaumann
+.Aq jschauma@NetBSD.org .