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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-01 16:41:42 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-01 16:41:42 +0000
commite010da13c43bbb7ac64ef171ac91922a57103784 (patch)
treed579a6e47dd4a6d036deef7f2a8a38df19ba12cb /usr.bin/stat/stat.1
parent2eeedd71534573466baba4f96e92c7fc892a35dc (diff)
cleanup;
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diff --git a/usr.bin/stat/stat.1 b/usr.bin/stat/stat.1
index 419699a678a..8e0c57f6b9b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/stat/stat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/stat/stat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: stat.1,v 1.1 2005/04/01 07:07:31 otto Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: stat.1,v 1.2 2005/04/01 16:41:41 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: stat.1,v 1.11 2003/05/08 13:07:10 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@
.Op Fl FLnq
.Oo
.Fl f Ar format |
-.Fl l |
-.Fl r |
-.Fl s |
-.Fl x
+.Fl l | r | s | x
.Oc
.Op Fl t Ar timefmt
.Op Ar
@@ -62,8 +59,8 @@ The
.Nm
utility displays information about the file pointed to by
.Ar file .
-Read, write or execute permissions of the named file are not required, but
-all directories listed in the path name leading to the file must be
+Read, write, or execute permissions of the named file are not required, but
+all directories listed in the pathname leading to the file must be
searchable.
If no argument is given,
.Nm
@@ -84,7 +81,7 @@ The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl F
As in
-.Ic ls ,
+.Xr ls 1 ,
display a slash (/) immediately after each pathname that is a directory, an
asterisk (*) after each that is executable, an at sign (@) after each symbolic
link, a percent sign (%) after each whiteout, an equal sign (=) after each
@@ -93,6 +90,10 @@ The use of
.Fl F
implies
.Fl l .
+.It Fl f Ar format
+Display information using the specified format.
+See the FORMATS section
+for a description of valid formats.
.It Fl L
Use
.Xr stat 2
@@ -105,6 +106,10 @@ will refer to the target of
if file is a symbolic link, and not to
.Ar file
itself.
+.It Fl l
+Display output in
+.Ic ls Fl lT
+format.
.It Fl n
Do not force a newline to appear at the end of each piece of output.
.It Fl q
@@ -116,29 +121,21 @@ fail.
When run as
.Nm readlink ,
error messages are automatically suppressed.
-.It Fl f Ar format
-Display information using the specified format.
-See the FORMATS section
-for a description of valid formats.
-.It Fl l
-Display output in
-.Ic ls Fl lT
-format.
.It Fl r
Display raw information.
That is, for all the fields in the stat-structure,
display the raw, numerical value (for example, times in seconds since the
-epoch, etc.)
+Epoch, etc.).
.It Fl s
Display information in ``shell output'', suitable for initializing variables.
-.It Fl x
-Display information in a more verbose way as known from some Linux
-distributions.
.It Fl t Ar timefmt
Display timestamps using the specified format.
This format is
passed directly to
.Xr strftime 3 .
+.It Fl x
+Display information in a more verbose way as known from some Linux
+distributions.
.El
.Ss FORMATS
Format strings are similar to
@@ -237,7 +234,7 @@ Displays the name of
Displays the type of
.Ar file .
.It Cm Y
-Insert a `` -\*[Gt] '' into the output.
+Insert a `` -\*(Gt '' into the output.
Note that the default output format
for
.Cm Y
@@ -298,7 +295,7 @@ Device upon which
.Ar file
resides.
.It Cm i
-.Ar file Ap s
+.Ar file Ns 's
inode number.
.It Cm p
File type and permissions.
@@ -307,14 +304,14 @@ Number of hard links to
.Ar file .
.It Cm u , g
User-id and group-id of
-.Ar file Ap s
+.Ar file Ns 's
owner.
.It Cm r
Device number for character and block device special files.
.It Cm a , m , c
The time
.Ar file
-was last accessed or modified, of when the inode was last changed.
+was last accessed or modified, or when the inode was last changed.
.It Cm z
The size of
.Ar file
@@ -332,7 +329,7 @@ Inode generation number.
.El
.Pp
The following four field specifiers are not drawn directly from the
-data in struct stat, but are
+data in struct stat, but are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Cm N
The name of the file.
@@ -371,18 +368,18 @@ and
.Cm N ,
which default to
.Cm S .
-.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Pp
.Nm
-exits 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurred.
+exits 0 on success, and \*(Gt0 if an error occurred.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Given a symbolic link ``foo'' that points from /tmp/foo to /, you would use
.Nm
as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-\*[Gt] stat -F /tmp/foo
-lrwxrwxrwx 1 jschauma cs 1 Apr 24 16:37:28 2002 /tmp/foo@ -\*[Gt] /
+\*(Gt stat -F /tmp/foo
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 jschauma cs 1 Apr 24 16:37:28 2002 /tmp/foo@ -\*(Gt /
-\*[Gt] stat -LF /tmp/foo
+\*(Gt stat -LF /tmp/foo
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Apr 19 10:57:54 2002 /tmp/foo/
.Ed
.Pp
@@ -390,12 +387,12 @@ To initialize some shell-variables, you could use the
.Fl s
flag as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-\*[Gt] csh
+\*(Gt csh
% eval set `stat -s .cshrc`
% echo $st_size $st_mtimespec
1148 1015432481
-\*[Gt] sh
+\*(Gt sh
$ eval $(stat -s .profile)
$ echo $st_size $st_mtimespec
1148 1015432481
@@ -405,16 +402,16 @@ In order to get a list of the kind of files including files pointed to if the
file is a symbolic link, you could use the following format:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ stat -f "%N: %HT%SY" /tmp/*
-/tmp/bar: Symbolic Link -\*[Gt] /tmp/foo
+/tmp/bar: Symbolic Link -\*(Gt /tmp/foo
/tmp/output25568: Regular File
/tmp/blah: Directory
-/tmp/foo: Symbolic Link -\*[Gt] /
+/tmp/foo: Symbolic Link -\*(Gt /
.Ed
.Pp
In order to get a list of the devices, their types and the major and minor
device numbers, formatted with tabs and linebreaks, you could use the
following format:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
+.Bd -literal -offset 4n
stat -f "Name: %N%n%tType: %HT%n%tMajor: %Hr%n%tMinor: %Lr%n%n" /dev/*
[...]
Name: /dev/wt8
@@ -431,14 +428,14 @@ Name: /dev/zero
In order to determine the permissions set on a file separately, you could use
the following format:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-\*[Gt] stat -f "%Sp -\*[Gt] owner=%SHp group=%SMp other=%SLp" .
-drwxr-xr-x -\*[Gt] owner=rwx group=r-x other=r-x
+\*(Gt stat -f "%Sp -\*(Gt owner=%SHp group=%SMp other=%SLp" .
+drwxr-xr-x -\*(Gt owner=rwx group=r-x other=r-x
.Ed
.Pp
In order to determine the three files that have been modified most recently,
you could use the following format:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-\*[Gt] stat -f "%m%t%Sm %N" /tmp/* | sort -rn | head -3 | cut -f2-
+\*(Gt stat -f "%m%t%Sm %N" /tmp/* | sort -rn | head -3 | cut -f2-
Apr 25 11:47:00 2002 /tmp/blah
Apr 25 10:36:34 2002 /tmp/bar
Apr 24 16:47:35 2002 /tmp/foo
@@ -460,8 +457,6 @@ utility appeared in
The
.Nm
utility was written by
-.An Andrew Brown
-.Aq atatat@NetBSD.org .
+.An Andrew Brown Aq atatat@NetBSD.org .
This man page was written by
-.An Jan Schaumann
-.Aq jschauma@NetBSD.org .
+.An Jan Schaumann Aq jschauma@NetBSD.org .