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I'd like to check the status my directories 

    $ ls
    Foo   Bar  Zoo

Check their status

    $ ls | xargs stat -x
      File: "Zoo"
      Size: 384          FileType: Directory
      Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)         Uid: (  501/ ..)  Gid: (   20/   ..)
    Device: 1,4   Inode: 8603392907    Links: 12
    Access: Fri Mar 30 09:12:06 2018
    Modify: Wed Mar 28 10:07:32 2018
    Change: Wed Mar 28 10:07:32 2018
      File: "Bar"
      Size: 160          FileType: Directory
      Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)         Uid: (  501/  ..)  Gid: (   20/   ..)
    Device: 1,4   Inode: 8604964551    Links: 5
    Access: Fri Mar 30 09:12:06 2018
    Modify: Thu Mar 29 20:48:46 2018
    Change: Thu Mar 29 20:48:46 2018
      File: "Zoo"
      Size: 416          FileType: Directory
      Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)         Uid: (  501/  ..)  Gid: (   20/   ..)
    Device: 1,4   Inode: 8603830641    Links: 13
    Access: Fri Mar 30 09:28:54 2018
    Modify: Fri Mar 30 09:28:54 2018
    Change: Fri Mar 30 09:28:54 2018

The format is dense, I prefer a sparse format to distingish each file or dir intuitively.

    $ ls | xargs stat -x
      File: "Foo"
      Size: 384          FileType: Directory
      Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)         Uid: (  501/ ..)  Gid: (   20/   ..)
    Device: 1,4   Inode: 8603392907    Links: 12
    Access: Fri Mar 30 09:12:06 2018
    Modify: Wed Mar 28 10:07:32 2018
    Change: Wed Mar 28 10:07:32 2018

      File: "Bar"
      Size: 160          FileType: Directory
      Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)         Uid: (  501/  ..)  Gid: (   20/   ..)
    Device: 1,4   Inode: 8604964551    Links: 5
    Access: Fri Mar 30 09:12:06 2018
    Modify: Thu Mar 29 20:48:46 2018
    Change: Thu Mar 29 20:48:46 2018

      File: "Zoo"
      Size: 416          FileType: Directory
      Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)         Uid: (  501/  ..)  Gid: (   20/   ..)
    Device: 1,4   Inode: 8603830641    Links: 13
    Access: Fri Mar 30 09:28:54 2018
    Modify: Fri Mar 30 09:28:54 2018
    Change: Fri Mar 30 09:28:54 2018

How to achieve it?

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Since you're using BSD stat, you can use the -f option to specify the format explicitly, including any trailing new lines you want. Writing out the entire format string for -x by hand might be a bit tedious, so here's the format string obtained from the source, combined into a single string:

'  File: "%N"%n  Size: %-11z  FileType: %HT%n  Mode: (%OMp%03OLp/%.10Sp)         Uid: (%5u/%8Su)  Gid: (%5g/%8Sg)%nDevice: %Hd,%Ld   Inode: %i    Links: %l%nAccess: %Sa%nModify: %Sm%nChange: %Sc'

Add a couple of %n to the end to get the effect you want:

$ stat_format='  File: "%N"%n  Size: %-11z  FileType: %HT%n  Mode: (%OMp%03OLp/%.10Sp)         Uid: (%5u/%8Su)  Gid: (%5g/%8Sg)%nDevice: %Hd,%Ld   Inode: %i    Links: %l%nAccess: %Sa%nModify: %Sm%nChange: %Sc%n%n'
$ stat -f "${stat_format}"  .zshrc .bashrc
  File: ".zshrc"
  Size: 5878         FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: (  502/muru)  Gid: (   20/   muru)
Device: 1,5   Inode: 8596072804    Links: 1
Access: Mar 30 11:40:18 2018
Modify: Mar 26 13:34:14 2018
Change: Mar 26 13:34:14 2018

  File: ".bashrc"
  Size: 3768         FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: (  502/muru)  Gid: (   20/   muru)
Device: 1,5   Inode: 8593701774    Links: 1
Access: Mar 30 11:40:18 2018
Modify: Jan 28 11:15:12 2018
Change: Jan 28 11:15:12 2018
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There are many ways to do what you want. One of the simplest is the following:

$ ls | xargs stat -x | sed 'n;n;n;n;n;n;s/$/\n/'

Note - The number of n;s may be off by one as I am not on a system that supports the -x output option.

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  • I upvoted, the command ls | xargs stat -x | sed 'n;n;n;n;n;n;s/$/\n/ output the same without separating each files.
    – AbstProcDo
    Mar 30, 2018 at 3:10
  • Are you saying that the sed command did not work for you?
    – fpmurphy
    Mar 30, 2018 at 3:39
  • Yes, BSD --version May 10, 2005
    – AbstProcDo
    Mar 30, 2018 at 3:44
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    Ah, the BSD version of sed is different. Try sed 's/$/\NEWLINE/' i.e. replace NEWLINE with an actual newline.
    – fpmurphy
    Mar 30, 2018 at 3:50

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