stat命令

今天在查找用strings命令是忘记要不要首字母要不要大写，于是就用tab键补全，结果列出了stat命令。这个命令的名字让我感动好奇，之前从来没用过。

 

于是stat  --help了一下，发现这命令原来非常有用。google了一下，该命令的中文资料极少，或许Linux大侠们都不屑于将man文档翻译成中文吧。

 

下面是stat --help输出

Usage: stat [OPTION] FILE...
Display file or filesystem status.

  -f, --filesystem      display filesystem status instead of file status
  -c  --format=FORMAT   use the specified FORMAT instead of the default
  -L, --dereference     follow links
  -t, --terse           print the information in terse form
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

The valid format sequences for files (without --filesystem):

  %A - Access rights in human readable form
  %a - Access rights in octal
  %b - Number of blocks allocated
  %D - Device number in hex
  %d - Device number in decimal
  %F - File type
  %f - raw mode in hex
  %G - Group name of owner
  %g - Group ID of owner
  %h - Number of hard links
  %i - Inode number
  %N - Quoted File name with dereference if symbolic link
  %n - File name
  %o - IO block size
  %s - Total size, in bytes
  %T - Minor device type in hex
  %t - Major device type in hex
  %U - User name of owner
  %u - User ID of owner
  %X - Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
  %x - Time of last access
  %Y - Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
  %y - Time of last modification
  %Z - Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
  %z - Time of last change

Valid format sequences for file systems:

  %a - Free blocks available to non-superuser
  %b - Total data blocks in file system
  %c - Total file nodes in file system
  %d - Free file nodes in file system
  %f - Free blocks in file system
  %i - File System id in hex
  %l - Maximum length of filenames
  %n - File name
  %s - Optimal transfer block size
  %T - Type in human readable form
  %t - Type in hex

 

后面的输出格式化其实大部分情况都是不需要的。

 

这个命令可以比ls -l 显示出更多的文件相关信息。该命令对我来说最大的好处是可以查看到一个文件最后访问的时间，最后修改时间。

 

当我换了一个页面在前台刷新发现和之前页面一样时，只要用这个命令看一下新换的文件是否被访问过，就能确认是不是缓存没刷新的问题了。

还是看看输出信息吧：

 

# stat java
  File: `java'
  Size: 64812           Blocks: 128        IO Block: 4096   Regular File
Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 711         Links: 1   
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1818/    star)   Gid: ( 1818/    star)
Access: 2009-01-08 14:05:37.000000000 +0800
Modify: 2005-11-11 04:48:31.000000000 +0800
Change: 2008-08-28 14:26:50.000000000 +0800