On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:34:36 +0200 Rares Aioanei <scha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Environment is NetBSD 7.0/i386. The manpage displays -v as an option : > > "-v Turn off quiet mode." > > However, that option is not recognized by stat(1) : > > $ stat -v > stat: unknown option -- v > > However (again), the stat(1) code seems to indicate otherwise : > > while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, options)) != -1) If you look at the synopsis in the man page, you'll see that it's only an option when stat is called as readlink. It makes it print a warning for nonexisting files, which stat does by default unless called with -q, which turns on quiet mode. (I guess the man page could be more verbose about this, and also describe the option as turning on verbosity.) kind regards dieter
