Assaf Gordon wrote:
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].
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Not in mine.
[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.
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According to the 'info' page, I have version:
GNU coreutils 8.26.18-5e871 January 2017 STAT(1)
So I don't see it there either
Though, if it isn't in the manpage, it's not very easy to
find since stat is a gnu-only format that requires arcane
knowledge to use and navigate.
Perhaps it's worth mentioning in the help-screen/man-page that the
full format is available in info/online ? What do others think?
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Why not put it in the manpage?
