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Practical Linux Security Cookbook - Second Edition
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Practical Linux Security Cookbook - Second Edition

by Tajinder Kalsi
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
12h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

This section will explain about the options and usage of the stat" command. By using stat, we can get a detailed status of a particular file or file system.

  1. Suppose we have a file called example.txt. When we do a long-listing of this file using the ls -l command, we get information about the file which includes information about when the file was last modified.

However, when we use the stat command to check details about the same file, it shows extra information about the file and the difference, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding output, we can see that the Modify and Change time are the same, but the ...

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