Hello, On 2017-10-09 12:59 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > I typed stat -t to look at the terse form of 'stat', and see > a bunch of numbers -- but nowhere do I see what those numbers > are suppose to be (i.e. they aren't documented in the manpage > and they obviously aren't the same as what is in the non-terse display).
The "--terse" format is documented in the info manual, available either with "info stat" or online [1]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stat-invocation.html#index-terse-output Note that it has two output formats, one for filesystems (when using "-f") and the other for file/directories. This is a (somewhat) recent addition by Bernhard Voelker in 2014 [2] , so if you have coreutils version 8.23 or older installed, it might not appear in the local "info" manual. [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=b020002b I also see in the code itself that if SELinux is enabled an additional "%C" is appended at the end of the format [3] (though that is not mentioned in the manual). [3] https://opengrok.housegordon.com/source/xref/coreutils/src/stat.c#1393 Perhaps it's worth mentioning in the help-screen/man-page that the full format is available in info/online ? What do others think? Regards, - assaf