Questions tagged [stat]
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partition size vs file system size
I am writing a c++ program that I need to get partitions and hhd's total, free and used space. I'm so confused with all commands and codes that can be used to get these data from system and all ...
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dumpe2fs vs stat command
As metioned here: https://linux.die.net/man/8/dumpe2fs , dumpe2fs prints out superblock and size of blocks and.. like below :
root@swkb-dev2:/home/heydari.f# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1
dumpe2fs 1.44.1 (...
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Couldn't stat remote file: No such file or directory message inside sftp prompt while doing “ls” or “mget” operation
I am facing a strange problem while using sftp via a shell script.
Here's the transcript of sftp code:
sftp> lcd source_folder
sftp> cd target_folder
sftp> mget -p *_XXXX.dat
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How are minor device numbers assigned for unnamed/non-device mounts (major number 0)?
I generally get how the whole major/minor device number thing works for a given device (though please correct me if I'm way off here), and how a major device number essentially relates to a class of ...
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Inconsistent st_blocks and st_size values for inaccessible file
I have a small text file (some metadata redacted)
-rw-r--r-- 1 **** **** 17198 Sep 29 2019 230999.txt
But it can't be viewed
% cat 230999.txt
cat: 230999.txt: Attribute not found
I'm not sure ...
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I did something to my bashrc or something in UNIX, not listed in sudoers file anymore and can not get access to directories
I am using REDHAT/CENTOS 6.5.
I used to have access to directories, but now when I try to go into them after I rebooted by UNIX, it tells me that permission is denied.
Using stat command on these ...
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Find the age of the oldest file in one line
I tried
stat -c %Y ./* 2>/dev/null | awk -v d="$(date +%s)" 'BEGIN {m=d} $0 < m {m = $0} END {print d - m}'
to find the age of the oldest file in the current directory, and I get a number in ...
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Viewing disk activity per disk and per process
I'm trying to see the disc activity per process and disk. The output of iotop is perfect, but it is over all volumes. I found a similar question here iotop but for particular disk? dated 6 years ago ...
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Using stat for time or date -r?
I have listed properties of a folder this way
stat -c $'--------------
File: %n
Size: %s
Owner: %U
Group: %G
Permissions: %A'
but I am having ...
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How do I account for a variable number of extra arguments in a bash script?
It is set up so that $1 is the flag for what the program is going to do, $2 can be a username or anything else. This works great except for one thing: I have to be able to add a comment to a user, and ...
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Portable way of finding files whose birth date is after a given timestamp
According to How to find creation date of file?, in Linux filesystems, such as ext4, Btrfs and JFS, that store the file creation time (aka birth time), it is possible to display the file birth time (...
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How do NFS (and other file sharing) implementations guarantee file stat uniqueness?
The SUSv4-2018ed have the following 2 paragraphs in the specification for <sys/stat.h> header:
Note that st_dev must be unique within a Local Area Network (LAN) in a ``system'' made up of ...
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Change file “Birth date” for ext4 files?
Is it possible to change a file "Birth date" (according to the stat file "Birth" field)?
I can change the modification/access time with touch -t 200109110846 file, but can't find the corresponding ...
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How to use stat or bash to check whether FILENAME refers to a file
Does the stat command offer, or does bash offer, a straightforward way to check whether FILENAME refers to a file rather than, say, a directory?
Using bash and stat, here is my ugly solution:
if ...
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How to get difference between 2 dates in Linux?
I know this is a common question, but I do not understand how the solutions provided work. Everyone advises to change the date to seconds from the epoch and then divide by (24 * 3600) to get the ...
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stat command unable to update the modified Time for a mounted file, but when mounted through shell , stat works
I am using stat command to check if the mounted file got updated recently, when I issue mount command on bash i can see stat works, where any modification to the mounted file updates the Modify time ...
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Get mtime Epoch timestamp with milliseconds from `stat`
If I'm using stat to display the mtime, I get a date with milliseconds:
$ stat -c '%y' test.log
2019-07-04 14:32:10.730059167 +0200
However, if I want to display the Epoch timestamp, I don't get ...
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Chaining find exec and a while loop
I'm trying to stack a find command so that the results it returns only contains files with "warning:" or "error:" text within them. I also require those results in a specific format so I'm using exec ...
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Stat -c command in UNIX
I am using the stat commands to show information of all files in a directory, by using the below commands in a script:
stat -c"%n|%s|%y" <FOLDER>/* | sed -r 'h; s/\|.*$//; s/^/wc -l </e; G;...
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Why is st_blocks always reported in 512-byte blocks?
I was debugging a fuse filesystem that was reporting wrong sizes for du. It turned out that it was putting st_size / st_blksize [*] into st_blocks of the stat structure. The Linux manual page for stat(...
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Bash Script general questions [closed]
The first part of what i am mucking around with simply creates a folder entitled command_manuals that contain text file copies of all the commands available at the bash shell, the filenames which are ...
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Translating Linux stat(1) command into BSD stat(1) command
Background
CLion's remote project feature currently doesn't support FreeBSD as a remote host OS, but I want to do some hacking and see if it works. By reading the log file, I think I have spotted (...
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Can bash read the “Date Added” of a file/directory?
With programs like stat you see access, modify and change, but with Finder on macOS there is a "Date Added" field. Can I get the "Date Added" for a file or directory displayed in the Terminal, like ...
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How do i capture /proc/<pid>/stat file of a process | linux kernel
As you may know, the /proc/stat file contain the numbers of ticks the different CPU's have spent their time. Same goes to /proc/pid/stat where the tics are measured based on pid (process id)
But when ...
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modify time for extracted folder
I just (today is 31-jan-2019) downloaded some random source.tar.gz and extracted it. When I do stat on the resulting folder, I see:
Access: 2019-01-31 10:37:26.308991485 +0100
Modify: 2018-11-18 00:...
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Why does GNU Core Utilities stat (including du and ls) report the following sizes (ext4 in GNU/Linux)?
If I have the following contents in a directory:
empty_dir: Empty directory.
empty_file: Empty file.
one_char: File consisting of one character.
several_blocks: File consisting of several blocks (but ...
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Using find to list directories that haven't been accessed since a certain date?
Using the stat command one can see and format the last date a directory was accessed. The adate
Is it possible to use find to find the directories that were changed before a certain date using a ...
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How to use istat on AIX like stat on Linux distributions
In Linux, I use the following command to show this output:
find /backup/$INSTANCE/tsm/* -exec echo '"{}" ' \; | xargs stat --printf "chown %U:%G '%n'\nchmod %a '%n'\n" >> /tmp/permissions.txt
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Is it normal that bash stat() and access() much, before commands?
Running strace on the bash shell that is instructed to run mkdir provided this output which shows lots of stats prior to execve the actual mkdir binary:
BASH$> strace -f sh -c "bash -c \"mkdir /...
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List files that are larger than 100 kB
I would like to list all the files in ~ whose size is greater than 100 kB but without using the find command. I need to do it with stat.
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Inode Timestamp Plus/Minus Interpretation
What does +0200 mean after the Access/Modify/Change timestamps?
File: task-system.md
Size: 197 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 33h/51d Inode: 14155787 Links: ...
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How can I use 'stat' to detect a new file and then move it to a different directory?
Ultimately I want to detect a new backup file being dropped into a directory and then move that new file to another location for other operations.
This needs to work when there is nobody logged into ...
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What can f_bsize be used for? (Is it similar to st_blksize?)
stat() on a file, returns several fields including st_blksize. This is documented as "the 'preferred' block size for efficient filesystem I/O". The value is not used as a unit for other stat() ...
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Command-line Equivalent to MacOSX stat -f “%m%t%Sm %N” on Linux?
I need to extract the timestamp of when a file has been created modified for the first time. The files are on a server and can be accessed from MacOSX via sshfs, as well as from a Ubuntu server. Under ...
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mounted g_mass_storage doesn't delete files
I'm having a strange problem with g_mass_storage gadget where deleted files from the PC are not 'actually' being deleted, which causes further problems when indexing.
Here is the procedure:
mount ...
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What does `stat -c '%B' *` mean? [duplicate]
stat -c '%B' * reports the same number 512 for each file. What does %B mean? I don't understand the manual:
%B - The size in bytes of each block reported by ‘%b’
Is it related to my block size:
$ ...
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How can I find the three largest files under a directory? [duplicate]
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/240424/674 shows a way to find the three most recent changed files (directly or indirectly) under a directory.
find . -type f -exec stat -c '%Y %n' {} \; | sort -nr | ...
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How can I separate information into fields in both input and output?
$ stat -c "%Y#%n#%y" * | awk -F'#' "BEGIN {OFS=\"|\"} NR==1,NR==3 {print \$2 \$3}"
directory1/Blum2017-12-22 22:33:38.644178442 -0500
dir2/Ciolli2017-12-22 21:53:51.769368496 -0500
Dar2017-12-06 13:...
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df and stat -f difference in blocks count for ext4 filesystem on LVM
[yotsu@fedora ttyid:2 czw maj 10 19:25:32 ~]$ df -B4K /dev/mapper/fedora-home
System plików 4K-bl użyte dostępne %uż. zamont. na
/dev/mapper/fedora-home 625612 27690 561212 5% /home
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What is file block size in Linux?
I want to get file block size of two files, using stat struct.
In internet, they say file block size is affected by which device is using.
If that is right, does block size of all files in same ...
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What is th difference betwen stat -c %B and stat -c %o? [duplicate]
For academic purposes im trying to demonstrate internal fragmentation of a file. As i understand it, internal fragmentation can be shown as a difference between the size of file and the size of all ...
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Difference between blocks from filefrag and stat
I have created file named sometext with random data inside. I wanted to check metadata of this file using several programs. I have used filefrag and stat program.
kd@kd-VPCEB2S1E ~/Downloads $ stat ...
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Using ls and stat [closed]
I have written this script, however the output is not correct. It returns stat cannot stat no such file or directory. The file format is Living Room-20180418-0955588134.jpg
Any help will be ...
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The BSD's stat option equivalent to `%y` in GNU
There's an option %y which state the last modification time
%y time of last data modification, human-readable
BSD's stat could list verbose information as
$ stat -x Foo
File: "Foo"
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What is a “weird file”?
An application I am using will not start with this user message: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/sleblanc/.config/app/.config
When I used ls, the file showed up as such:
?--------- 1 root root ...
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A Sparse Format from command stat
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/...
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File name too long error with command 'stat'
I retrieve a booklist after seaching the python books in home directory using this command on OSX:
find ~ -type f -iregex '.*python.*\.pdf'
the booklist
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.../Computing/Python/...
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ls -s uses wrong block size
Ubuntu linux: ls -s disagrees with du & stat for the number of blocks used by a small file.
ls -s ../nc2/.git/logs/refs/heads/
total 4
du ../nc2/.git/logs/refs/heads/
8 ../nc2/.git/logs/...
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Creation time anomaly
I need to know the creation time of a file. I tried to run the stat filename command. But my fs does not store file creation time as metadata.
[root@s1 XYZ]# stat ./px/cd/78/...
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Meaning of statement that 'getcwd functions work correctly' in FreeBSD man page for mount_nullfs?
In FreeBSD, man mount_nullfs states that:
The primary differences between a virtual copy of the file system and a
symbolic link are that the getcwd(3) functions work correctly in the virtual
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