According to Keith Stevenson:
> Sure, I can work on that. It would be helpful if you could include a few
> sample outputs that I could work from.
You may also want to look at the builtin stat(1) function in zsh too. 3.1.5+
only, I don't think 3.1.4 had it. BTW 3.1.6 now pretty close to release.
stat [ -gnNlLtTrs ] [ -f fd ] [ -H hash ] [ -A array ] [
-F fmt ] [ +element ] [ file ... ]
The command acts as a front end to the stat system
call (see stat(2)). If the stat call fails, the
appropriate system error message printed and status
1 is returned. The fields of struct stat give
information about the files provided as arguments
to the command. In addition to those available
from the stat call, an extra element `link' is pro-
vided. These elements are:
device The number of the device on which the file
resides.
inode The unique number of the file on this device
(`inode' number).
mode The mode of the file; that is, the file's
type and access permissions. With the -s
option, this will be returned as a string
corresponding to the first column in the
display of the ls -l command.
nlink The number of hard links to the file.
uid The user ID of the owner of the file. With
the -s option, this is displayed as a user
name.
gid The group ID of the file. With the -s
option, this is displayed as a group name.
rdev The raw device number. This is only useful
for special devices.
size The size of the file in bytes.
atime
mtime
ctime The last access, modification and inode
change times of the file, respectively, as
the number of seconds since midnight GMT on
1st January, 1970. With the -s option,
these are printed as strings for the local
time zone; the format can be altered with
the -F option, and with the -g option the
times are in GMT.
blksize
The number of bytes in one allocation block
on the device on which the file resides.
block The number of disk blocks used by the file.
link If the file is a link and the -L option is
in effect, this contains the name of the
file linked to, otherwise it is empty. Note
that if this element is selected (``stat
+link'') then the -L option is automatically
used.
A particular element may be selected by including
its name preceded by a `+' in the option list; only
one element is allowed. The element may be short-
ened to any unique set of leading characters. Oth-
erwise, all elements will be shown for all files.
Options:
-A array
Instead of displaying the results on stan-
dard output, assign them to an array, one
struct stat element per array element for
each file in order. In this case neither
the name of the element nor the name of the
files is provided unless the -t or -n
options are provided, respectively. In the
former case the element name appears as a
prefix to the appropriate array element and
in the latter case the file name appears as
a separate array element preceding all the
others. Other formatting options are
respected.
-H hash
Similar to -A, but instead assign the values
to hash. The keys are the elements listed
above. If the -n option is provided then
the name of the file is included in the hash
with key name.
-f fd Use the file on file descriptor fd instead
of named files; no list of file names is
allowed in this case.
-F fmt Supplies a strftime (see strftime(3)) string
for the formatting of the time elements.
The -s option is implied.
-g Show the time elements in the GMT time zone.
The -s option is implied.
-l List the names of the type elements (to
standard output or an array as appropriate)
and return immediately; options other than
-A and arguments are ignored.
-L Perform an lstat (see lstat(2)) rather than
a stat system call. In this case, if the
file is a link, information about the link
itself rather than the target file is
returned. This option is required to make
the link element useful.
-n Always show the names of files. Usually
these are only shown when output is to stan-
dard output and there is more than one file
in the list.
-N Never show the names of files.
-r Print raw data (the default format) along-
side string data (the -s format); the string
data appears in parentheses after the raw
data.
-s Print mode, uid, gid and the three time ele-
ments as strings instead of numbers. In
each case the format is like that of ls -l.
-t Always show the type names for the elements
of struct stat. Usually these are only
shown when output is to standard output and
no individual element has been selected.
-T Never show the type names of the struct stat
elements.
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