#top stat¶

follow links

print the security context information if available

display file system status instead of file status

use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a newline after each use of FORMAT

like --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not output a mandatory trailing newline. If you want a newline, include \n in FORMAT.

print the information in terse form

display this help and exit

output version information and exit

The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):

%a Access rights in octal

%A Access rights in human readable form

%b Number of blocks allocated (see %B)

%B The size in bytes of each block reported by %b

%d Device number in decimal

%D Device number in hex

%f Raw mode in hex

%F File type

%g Group ID of owner

%G Group name of owner

%h Number of hard links

%i Inode number

%n File name

%N Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link

%o I/O block size

%s Total size, in bytes

%t Major device type in hex

%T Minor device type in hex

%u User ID of owner

%U User name of owner

%x Time of last access

%X Time of last access as seconds since Epoch

%y Time of last modification

%Y Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch

%z Time of last change

%Z Time of last change as seconds since Epoch

Valid format sequences for file systems:

%a Free blocks available to non-superuser

%b Total data blocks in file system

%c Total file nodes in file system

%d Free file nodes in file system

%f Free blocks in file system

%C Security context in SELinux

%i File System ID in hex

%l Maximum length of filenames

%n File name

%s Block size (for faster transfers)

%S Fundamental block size (for block counts)

%t Type in hex

%T Type in human readable form

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.