Commands using stat (65)
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This function will find the modification time in unix_time of the given file, then calculate the number of minutes from now to then and then find all files modified in that range. Show Sample Output
0function findOlderThan () { find . -mmin -$((($(date "+%s") - $(stat -c %Y $1))/60)) -type f ; } -
Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
0find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort|awk '{print $4}'|gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.pdf\n", $0, a++ }' | bash -
Given a list of filenames, one per line, in /tmp/filelist, calculate the total sum disk usage.
0LISTCOUNT=0; LISTSIZE=0; cat /tmp/filelist | while read FF; do FILESIZE=$(stat -c%s "$FF"); LISTSIZE=$[LISTSIZE+${FILESIZE}]; echo listsize: $LISTSIZE; LISTCOUNT=$[LISTCOUNT+1]; echo listcount: $LISTCOUNT; done | tail -2 -
I have this in my .bash_aliases and call it before running apt-get install or apt-get upgrade Example: alias apt-install='apt-update; apt-get install' alias apt-upgrade='apt-update; apt-get upgrade' function apt-update () { if [[ $(expr $(date +%s) - $(stat -c %X /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp)) -gt 86400 ]]; then sudo apt-get update else echo apt is up to date fi }
0if [[ $(expr $(date +%s) - $(stat -c %X /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp)) -gt 86400 ]]; then sudo apt-get update fi -
0stat --format=%A foo.txt
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It simply prints the file size in bytes. Show Sample Output
0stat -c %s filename -
0stat -c '%A %a %n' /path/to/file
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Stat -c %n #list files. A find command is also useful Tee #use stdout, but reseend to next comand. Can be other Tee ad infinitum xargs #use de name of files to execute md5 and sha diggest.
0stat -c %n * |tee >(xargs md5sum >estedir.md5) >(xargs sha512sum >estedir.sha) -
a quick function for searching changed files. just copy it in the bash Show Sample Output
0FINDDATE() { LOCATION="${1:-.}"; find ${LOCATION} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort | sed 's/.\([0-9]\)\{9,\} +0[1-2]00/\t/' | sed 's/ /\t/g' } -
Does the same but shows nicely progress in real time with correct Size in %. But also needs the packages sudo,dd,pv and dialog.
0image="file.iso";drive="/dev/null";sudo -- sh -c 'cat '"${image}"'|(pv -n -s $(stat --printf="%s" '"${image}"')|dd of='"${drive}"' obs=1M oflag=direct) 2>&1| dialog --gauge "Writing Image '"${image}"' to Drive '"${drive}"'" 10 70 7' -
-1echo $(( $( date +%s ) - $( stat -c %Y * | sort -nr | head -n 1 ) ))
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-2stat -f '%Su' /dev/console
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Muestra el crecimiento de un archivo por segundo. Cambia el texto "FILE" por el nombre del archivo a monitorear. Comando STAT
-2while true; do A=$(stat -c%s FILE); sleep 1; B=$(stat -c%s FILE); echo -en "\r"$(($B-$A))" Bps"; done -
-4accurev stat -M -fl | awk '{print "\"" $0 "\""}' | xargs accurev pop
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-9dd if=file1 of=file2 seek=1 bs=$(stat -c%s file2)
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