[Nottingham] FYI: stat -t (stat terse format)

[Martin]

Just came across an incomplete man page description...

For "stat", nothing is said about what "stat -t" ("stat -terse") outputs!

Looking up the source code and... The terse option gives a different
output depending on what flavour or unix is used.

For Linux 2.6 at least, the output given is:

#
#  stat -t mmd5c02
#
#  File: `mmd5c02'
#  Size: 452             Blocks: 8          IO Block: 131072 regular file
#  Device: 2207h/8711d     Inode: 254124      Links: 1
#  Access: (0700/-rwx------)  Uid: (  500/  martin)   Gid: (  500/  martin)
#  Access: 2007-01-16 15:42:48.000000000 +0000
#  Modify: 2007-01-16 15:42:48.000000000 +0000
#  Change: 2007-01-16 15:43:06.000000000 +0000
#
#  stat -t mmd5c02
#
#  mmd5c02 452 8 81c0 500 500 2207 254124 1 0 0 1168962168 1168962168
1168962186 131072
#
#  terse format = "%n %s %b %f %u %g %D %i %h %t %T %X %Y %Z %o":
#  filename size(bytes) blocks Raw_mode(HEX) Uid Gid Device(HEX) Inode
hard_links major_device_type(HEX) minor_device_type(HEX) Access(Epoch
seconds) Modify(Epoch seconds) Change(Epoch seconds) IOblock
#


It would be nice if the man page at least said that the output depended
on what unix was used...

Hope that helps whomever rather than having to do a "try-it-and-guess"!

Happy hackings,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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