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doc: document stat's output with the --terse option

* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Add a paragraph documenting
stat's output format when the --terse option is specified, both in
normal and in --file-system mode.

Reported by Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
in http://bugs.gnu.org/18624
This commit is contained in:
Bernhard Voelker
2014-10-04 17:09:59 +02:00
parent 2d3ba46e58
commit b020002b4b

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@@ -11885,6 +11885,20 @@ $ stat --printf='%d:%i\n' / /usr
@cindex terse output
Print the information in terse form, suitable for parsing by other programs.
The output of the following commands are identical and the @option{--format}
also identifies the items printed (in fuller form) in the default format.
Note the format string would include another @samp{%C} at the end with an
active SELinux security context.
@example
$ stat --format="%n %s %b %f %u %g %D %i %h %t %T %X %Y %Z %W %o" ...
$ stat --terse ...
@end example
The same illustrating terse output in @option{--file-system} mode:
@example
$ stat -f --format="%n %i %l %t %s %S %b %f %a %c %d" ...
$ stat -f --terse ...
@end example
@end table
The valid @var{format} directives for files with @option{--format} and