While working on Linux, the most commonly used command is ls
, which gives a listing of the files in the specified directory. However, it shows only a little information about the files.
Instead, if we use the stat
command, we can get more information about the files/directories when compared to using ls
. Because stat
is able to get information about a file from its inode, it is able to give more information about the files.
Since stat
is an built-in command of Linux, nothing else needs to be installed so that we can use it.
This section will explain about the options and usage of the stat
" command. By using stat
, we can get a detailed status of a particular file or file system.
- Suppose we have a file called
example.txt
. When we do a long-listing of this file using thels -l
command, we get information about the file which includes information about when the file was last modified.
However, when we use the stat
command to check details about...