Questions tagged [stat]
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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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permission denied: cdrom to change permission
I need to change the permission of cdrom.
I have tried the command stat and this is the result:
File: /media/cdrom0
Size: 2048 Blocks: 4 IO Block: 2048 directory
Device: b00h/...
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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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Unable to stat itself when running a bash script
I have a bash script called a located in /home/agrillet/ where I do this command:
BOOTSTRAP_MODIF="stat -c %Y '/home/agrillet/a'"
The output is: ./a: line 60: stat -c %Y '/home/agrillet/a': No such ...
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Meaning of st_ino
This might be an easy question, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere: what does the st_ino field of struct stat contain for filesystems that do not use inodes? I'm interested in particular in ...
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Why is the number of ticks inaccurate?
I checked the numbers in proc/stat to the the number of clock ticks the CPU has had and I saw that the sum of the numbers in CPU1-4 is not equal to the numbers written in front of CPU as a whole. Why ...
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stats does not work with spaces?
I am using a script to copy some files depending on the year they were created in, it works fine with files without spaces but with the files with spaces there is a problem with the stats command,for ...
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Understanding stat, du and ls -l output on my NFS mount
ls -l f.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 abc abc 1161 Sep 1 02:02 f.txt
stat f.txt
File: `f.txt'
Size: 1161 Blocks: 34 IO Block: 524288 regular file
Device: 38h/56d Inode: 6448956669 Links: 1
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Why do special device files have inodes?
Device files are not files per se. They're an I/O interface to use the devices in Unix-like operating systems. They use no space on disk, however, they still use an inode as reported by the stat ...
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List files with timestamp since epoch
I basically want to combine the output of
find /
with the output of:
find / | xargs -L1 stat -c%Z
The first command lists the files in the / directory and the second lists the timestamp of each ...
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What is “Device: 802h/2050d” stands for in inode?
When I list an inode with stat command:
File: 'text'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 8391119 Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-...
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-bash: lstat: command not found
I'm using a Macbook Pro running El Capitan v 10.11.6. I am learning about symlinks, and in the man ln page, I found the following:
A stat(2) on a symbolic link will return the linked-to file; an ...
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Compare two file modification dates
I am creating a generic compilation/transpilation system. One way to know if a file has been compiled/transpiled already would be to compare the source and target file modification dates.
I need to ...
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Why the difference between stat and df
I run these commands:
df /
stat -fc '%f * %s' /
and get
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ma....Vol00 26409212 15604380 9441888 63% /
and
2701196 * ...
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stat --format %N quotes
I used stat on two different versions of Ubuntu and it printed different types of quotes.
14.04 (coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu5.1):
$ stat --format %N test.txt
‘test.txt’
16.04 (coreutils 8.25-2ubuntu2):
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Track total data written in and read from a folder within bash script
I have a bash script to do calculation. This calculation generates big scratch files as big as 12 GB and the disk usage of scratch folder is ~30 GB. I want to know how much total data is written to ...
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How do I create a list of the file contents of a directory and sub-directories with creation, added, modified and last opened times for each file?
I have a Mac and need to create a list of all the file contents in a given directory and it's sub-directories, together with the 'Creation', 'Added', 'Modified' and 'Last Opened' dates for each file.
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Mtime timezone is different than ctime&atime, why?
I used the stat command on a certain file and i noticed mtime was in a different timezone than ctime and atime,
what would cause such a thing and what is the reason that someone would do that?
im ...
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How to include hidden files in stat command?
In my code I am basically looping recursively through all files and getting the sizes using stat -c%s $i. It works well for 99% of files, however, sometimes I get an error:
stat: cannot stat '/media/...
