From b020002b4bfae55d5bbcf66bd7ce787a4e6da689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Voelker Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 17:09:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: document stat's output with the --terse option * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Add a paragraph documenting stat's output format when the --terse option is specified, both in normal and in --file-system mode. Reported by Dan Jacobson in http://bugs.gnu.org/18624 --- doc/coreutils.texi | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 03bb710e91..aece931f2e 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11885,6 +11885,20 @@ $ stat --printf='%d:%i\n' / /usr @cindex terse output Print the information in terse form, suitable for parsing by other programs. +The output of the following commands are identical and the @option{--format} +also identifies the items printed (in fuller form) in the default format. +Note the format string would include another @samp{%C} at the end with an +active SELinux security context. +@example +$ stat --format="%n %s %b %f %u %g %D %i %h %t %T %X %Y %Z %W %o" ... +$ stat --terse ... +@end example + +The same illustrating terse output in @option{--file-system} mode: +@example +$ stat -f --format="%n %i %l %t %s %S %b %f %a %c %d" ... +$ stat -f --terse ... +@end example @end table The valid @var{format} directives for files with @option{--format} and -- 2.47.3