TO FIND OUT THE STATUS OF A FILE IN LINUX

# stat smb.conf

OUTPUT:

File: `smb.conf'

Size: 10041 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 regular file

Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 1901530 Links: 1

Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)

Access: 2010-06-17 07:12:01.000000000 +0530

Modify: 2010-06-17 07:09:52.000000000 +0530

Change: 2010-06-17 07:09:52.000000000 +0530