File and Directory Information with stat Command

Discover how to utilize the stat command to retrieve comprehensive details about files and directories. Explore various options to display folder paths, user and group ownership, octal permissions, inode numbers, number of hard links, file types, total size, access, modification, and change times, I/O block size, and number of allocated blocks.

Print folder, user, group and octal permissions of all files in ~/

stat -c '%n %U %G %n %a' $HOME

Print permissions in octal

stat -c %a %n $HOME

Simulate Dolphin explorers default setup

stat -c '%n %s %U %G %a %z' $HOME/* \
	|awk '//{printf "%10s %100s %10s %10s %10s %10s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6 }' \
	|column -t -N Path,Size,User,Group,Perm,Modified \
	|sed "1,2 i $(printf %85s\
	|tr ' ' '=')"

Print the inode number

stat -c %i $HOME

Print the number of hard links

stat -c %h $HOME

Print the file type

stat -c %F $HOME

Print the file's total size in bytes

stat -c %s $HOME

Print the time of last access

stat -c %x $HOME

Print the time of last modification

stat -c %y $HOME

Print the time of last change

stat -c %z $HOME

Print the I/O block size

stat -c %o $HOME

Print the number of blocks allocated

stat -c %b $HOME