NAME

	stat – print information about a file

SYNOPSIS

	stat [ –f format ] [ –9DL ] file [ file... ]

DESCRIPTION

Stat prints various bits of information about file based on a given format, described below. The default format is %t%n, yielding the modification time and a newline. Format is a string containing any number of data elements to print, each indicated by a % followed by a single character verb, similar to a print(2) specification but with no flags. Each verb corresponds to either a single data element, such as the file modification time or group, a combination of them, or a literal character output. The verbs which produce literal character output are for convenience in environments where quoting is difficult or tedius; characters not preceeded by a % are otherwise passed through. Unrecognized verbs are ignored. The options –9, –D, and –L are convenience shortcuts, equivalent to the formats of the same character followed by a newline in the case of –9 and –L.

VERBS

Basic values %a      Last access time; Dir–>atime. %d      Device; Dir–>dev. %g      Group; Dir–>gid. %l      Size (length) in bytes; Dir–>length. %m      Mode; access permissions and file attributes; Dir–>mode. %M      User who last modified the file; Dir–>muid. %n      A newline. %N      Name of the file; Dir–>name. %o      Owner of the file; Dir–>uid. %p      Qid path; Dir–>qid.path. %q      Qid type, the file attributes in the top two bytes of Dir–>mode; Dir–>qid.type. %t      Last modification time; Dir–>mtime. %T      Character representing the file server type; Dir–>type. (Not to be confused with the type component of the Qid.) %v      Version of the file, per the Qid; Dir–>qid.vers. Composite values %9      A composite output similar to that of 9p stat from Plan 9 from User Space. %D      A verbose output of the full Dir structure. %L      A composite output similar to that of ls –l, except that it leaves mode and time as their raw values. %Q      Qid; equivalent to %p %v %q. Character literals %n      A newline. %_      A tab. %%      A %. %      (% followed by a space) A space.

BUGS

	It's frustrating that the literals aren't the same as datefmt(1). There exist some functions suitable for fmtinstall(2) which we aren't using.