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5 ‘stat’ Command Examples for Linux Newbies

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Aaron Kili
Apr 11, 2018

Tecmint: stat command is a useful utility for viewing file or file system status. It retrieves information such as file type; access rights in octal and human-readable; SELinux security context string; time of file birth, last access, last data modification, last status change in both human-readable and in seconds since Epoch, and much more.
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