Stat (Unix)
stat() is a Unix system call that returns useful data about an i-node. The semantics of stat() vary between Operating Systems. In the platform-independent scripting tool Perl, stat() returns a a thirteen-element array. From the Perl documentation:
Not all fields are supported on all filesystem types. Here are the
meaning of the fields:
0 dev device number of filesystem
1 ino inode number
2 mode file mode (type and permissions)
3 nlink number of (hard) links to the file
4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner
5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner
6 rdev the device identifier (special files only)
7 size total size of file, in bytes
8 atime last access time in
Unix time format
9 mtime last modify time in
Unix time format
10 ctime inode change time (NOT creation time!) in
Unix time format
11 blksize preferred block size for file system I/O
12 blocks actual number of blocks allocated
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