Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached.From 34a93b971dd68ab8ff96aa20bf2f39374ab3a443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:50:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] stat: -c %s now prints unsigned
* src/stat.c (unsigned_file_size): New static function,
copied from src/ls.c.
(print_stat): %s prints an unsigned value now (Bug#56710).
---
NEWS | 2 ++
src/stat.c | 10 +-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b4e3cf83a..816025255 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS-*- outline -*-
reverting to the behavior in coreutils-9.0 and earlier.
This behavior is now documented.
+ ’stat -c %s' now prints sizes as unsigned, consistent with 'ls'.
+
** New Features
factor now accepts the --exponents (-h) option to print factors
diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c
index 3765a8f65..549762aba 100644
--- a/src/stat.c
+++ b/src/stat.c
@@ -1492,6 +1492,14 @@ do_stat (char const *filename, char const *format,
}
#endif /* USE_STATX */
+/* POSIX requires 'ls' to print file sizes without a sign, even
+ when negative. Be consistent with that. */
+
+static uintmax_t
+unsigned_file_size (off_t size)
+{
+ return size + (size < 0) * ((uintmax_t) OFF_T_MAX - OFF_T_MIN + 1);
+}
/* Print stat info. Return zero upon success, nonzero upon failure. */
static bool
@@ -1575,7 +1583,7 @@ print_stat (char *pformat, size_t prefix_len, char mod, char m,
fail |= out_mount_point (filename, pformat, prefix_len, statbuf);
break;
case 's':
- out_int (pformat, prefix_len, statbuf->st_size);
+ out_uint (pformat, prefix_len, unsigned_file_size (statbuf->st_size));
break;
case 'r':
if (mod == 'H')
--
2.37.1
