Re: geting some file stat

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:33:18 +0200
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:

> > Thanks all for your help,
> 
> > indeed 
> > stat -f "%Mp%Lp:%u:%g:%N"
> > does the trick
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0600, Robby Griffin wrote:
>  >> Don't forget you can stat multiple files, too:
>  >>
>  >> stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp" filename1 filename2 ...
> 
> > but I have a *large* number of files.. and would expect a shell
> > error using them all on one line...
> 
> cat file_list.txt | xargs stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp"
> 
Better yet, 

        args stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp" <file_list.txt

if all of the names are in one file.

One thing to be wary of: files with special characters in their names.
If you're generating the list via find, use -printx instead of -print.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb