stat Command Examples

Display file and filesystem information. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stat-invocation.html.

• Display properties about a specific file such as size, permissions, creation and access dates among others:

stat {{path/to/file}}

• Display properties about a specific file such as size, permissions, creation and access dates among others without labels:

stat --terse {{path/to/file}}

• Display information about the filesystem where a specific file is located:

stat --file-system {{path/to/file}}

• Show only octal file permissions:

stat --format="%a %n" {{path/to/file}}

• Show the owner and group of a specific file:

stat --format="%U %G" {{path/to/file}}

• Show the size of a specific file in bytes:

stat --format="%s %n" {{path/to/file}}