uutils-coreutils/src/uu/stat/stat.md

stat

stat [OPTION]... FILE...

Display file or file system status.

Long Usage

The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):

%a   access rights in octal (note '#' and '0' printf flags)
%A   access rights in human readable form
%b   number of blocks allocated (see %B)
%B   the size in bytes of each block reported by %b
%C   SELinux security context string
%d   device number in decimal
%D   device number in hex
%f   raw mode in hex
%F   file type
%g   group ID of owner
%G   group name of owner
%h   number of hard links
%i   inode number
%m   mount point
%n   file name
%N   quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
%o   optimal I/O transfer size hint
%s   total size, in bytes
%t   major device type in hex, for character/block device special files
%T   minor device type in hex, for character/block device special files
%u   user ID of owner
%U   user name of owner
%w   time of file birth, human-readable; - if unknown
%W   time of file birth, seconds since Epoch; 0 if unknown
%x   time of last access, human-readable
%X   time of last access, seconds since Epoch
%y   time of last data modification, human-readable
%Y   time of last data modification, seconds since Epoch
%z   time of last status change, human-readable
%Z   time of last status change, seconds since Epoch

Valid format sequences for file systems:

%a   free blocks available to non-superuser
%b   total data blocks in file system
%c   total file nodes in file system
%d   free file nodes in file system
%f   free blocks in file system
%i   file system ID in hex
%l   maximum length of filenames
%n   file name
%s   block size (for faster transfers)
%S   fundamental block size (for block counts)
%t   file system type in hex
%T   file system type in human readable form

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.