The basic stat command works without any command line arguments, other than the file name… If you prefer a much more human readable format, then you can use the stat command instead. As long as you know what information is printed in each column it should work just fine. The above command will print out all relevant metadata information about the file, but usually is not very human readable in its format. H : Print the sizes in human readable format. N : Prints out the numeric user id and group id I : Prints out the inode number of the fileĪ : Prints out all entries and does not ignore any files This is much more informative than the default format. L : This uses the long listing format while printing out. The various command line options above prints out various information as detailed below Using some command line options you can print out all the details and metadata information of the particular file. The most useful of the two commands is ls, (at least in my opinion) which lists the file details. Both will print out almost the same information but in different format. There are mainly two different commands that you can use for this purpose, ls and stat. The file metadata details includes information regarding its size, permissions, creation date, access date, inode number, uid/gid, file type etc.

When viewing a particular file in Linux, you might want to see all the relevant file metadata associated with it.

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