Hi! I ran into a problem with a job I'm running. All it is doing is a "touch" on a filename. However, when I ran the job, it error'd out and got the message 'cannot stat'. When I restarted the job (making no changes) it worked just fine. Anyone know what this means? (1 Reply)
I'm not sure where to post this so I'll try it here.
I'm trying to load a software package to my server and I keep getting a cannot stat error. I'll post the error line below along with my configuartaion line. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction. Thanks!
This is the error.
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From reading various articles on the net, I know stat() is used on files to get things like permissions, sizes etc... As a folder is a special type of file in Unix, I assumed that stat() could work on it as well as any general file.
However, from running my program, perror() reported that the... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to find .tif files in a directory tree and rename them prior to zipping them and moving them to another dir. this is my code:
cd $TMPPATH
pwd
ctr=0
for i in 'find . -name "*.tif"'
do
let "ctr+=1"
newtifname=$DATEDIR"_"$SEQ"_"$ctr".tif"
mv "$i"... (6 Replies)
I have a string with escape differentiators as a result of searching for a file using find. Essentially find returned to my shell variable several absolute paths each ending with the file name and each path/file separated by \n.
Echo recognizes the escape sequence and is able to print the paths... (3 Replies)
If i do ls -l i get the result rwx-rw-r ...... ............... file.
How can i get the result in octal format.
All other output will be the same as ls -l shows.
The rwx-rw-r would be like 755 etc. (7 Replies)
i know this command does not exist in solaris. however, i read somewhere on this forum that basically everything the stat command provides in other oses can be obtained in solaris using the ls command.
i've searched the forum for a while now and i cant find the thread. does anyone know about... (1 Reply)
Die to what all operations, the "Modify" and "Change" values of stat output changes for a file.
I found, during editing a file, Change and Modify alters. When chmod'ing Change alters, while Modify doesnot alters. Is there more situations where these changes? (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am getting the below error can anyone please help with this?
cp ${AI_SERIAL}/file_name ${AI_SERIAL_ARCH}/${ODATE}_file_name
cp: cannot stat `$AI_SERIAL/FILE_NAME': No such file or directory
+ gzip:$AI_SERIAL_ARCH./$ODATE_FILE_NAME
gzip:$AI_SERIAL_ARCH./$ODATE_FILE_NAME: No such... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bhanudhingra
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
stat
STAT(1) FSF STAT(1)NAME
stat - display file or filesystem status
SYNOPSIS
stat [OPTION] FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Display file or filesystem status.
-f, --filesystem
display filesystem status instead of file status
-c--format=FORMAT use the specified FORMAT instead of the default
-L, --dereference
follow links
-t, --terse
print the information in terse form
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
The valid format sequences for files (without --filesystem):
%A - Access rights in human readable form %a - Access rights in octal %b - Number of blocks allocated %D - Device number in hex %d -
Device number in decimal %F - File type %f - raw mode in hex %G - Group name of owner %g - Group ID of owner %h - Number of hard
links %i - Inode number %N - Quoted File name with dereference if symbolic link %n - File name %o - IO block size %s - Total size,
in bytes %T - Minor device type in hex %t - Major device type in hex %U - User name of owner %u - User ID of owner %X - Time of last
access as seconds since Epoch %x - Time of last access %Y - Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch %y - Time of last modi-
fication %Z - Time of last change as seconds since Epoch %z - Time of last change
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 %i - File System id in hex %l - Maximum length of filenames %n - File name
%s - Optimal transfer block size %T - Type in human readable form %t - Type in hex
AUTHOR
Written by Michael Meskes.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and stat programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info stat
should give you access to the complete manual.
stat (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 STAT(1)