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Linux stat Command

Linux Command Manual

The Linux stat command is used to display the content of the inode.

The stat command displays the content of the inode in text format.

Syntax

stat [File or Directory]

Online Example

To view the inode content of the testfile, you can use the following command:

stat testfile

The output result of executing the above command is shown below:

# stat testfile                #Input Command
  File: `testfile'
  Size: 102             Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 807h/2055d      Inode: 1265161     Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2019-08-13 14:07:20.000000000 +0800
Modify: 2019-08-13 14:07:07.000000000 +0800
Change: 2019-08-13 14:07:07.000000000 +0800

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