Stat Utility
The stat utility allows you to see all information about either a file or a directory. You can use wildcards if you want to see info for more than one object at a time. stat process.sh File: `process.sh' Size: 158 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 305h/773d Inode: 98134 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2010-08-18 11:16:37.000000000 -0600 Modify: 2010-08-16 09:44:57.000000000 -0600 Change: 2010-08-16 09:44:57.000000000 -0600 Most of this should be self-explanatory, but a few items bear explaining. * Blocks–Each file occupies a certain number of filesystem blocks on the hard drive. Here, we see that this file occupies eight blocks. * IO Block–This i...