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author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2014-10-04 17:09:59 +0200 |
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committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2014-10-04 17:12:58 +0200 |
commit | b020002b4bfae55d5bbcf66bd7ce787a4e6da689 (patch) | |
tree | 42f49f2a64b66da4eb876796183117de91ca03b8 | |
parent | 2d3ba46e580cbc9e81edc4e8dd759f9fb0775161 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-b020002b4bfae55d5bbcf66bd7ce787a4e6da689.tar.xz |
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 <jidanni@jidanni.org>
in http://bugs.gnu.org/18624
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 03bb710e9..aece931f2 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 |