The stat(2) system call on POSIX systems. For statistics, use the statistics instead.
The stat(2) system call is used to retrieve information about a named file (or directory).
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For statistics, use the statistics tag instead.
Questions tagged [stat]
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How to access errno after using syscall?
I'm using syscall stat, it returns 0/-1. When -1 is returned it means, error occurred and errno is set as it should be (source: man 2 stat).
But I want to access errno and print it, how to do that?
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stat comand - compute difference of two timestamps
I would like to compute the difference of two timestamps using a bash script: one which is the output of stat command and another one is defined as a string. The format of file timestamp is as follows:
2018-06-17 20:02:59
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Program wchich reads its own size from st_size
Using stat() function and main function arguments I have to write a program which reads and prints its own size from st_size.
What I've already tried:
#include
#include
int main( const char * szFileName )
{
struct…
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How do I find the Total number of disk blocks taken by the current directory (C UNIX)?
so I've almost finished my assignment where I basically recreated the UNIX ls -l command, but the only thing missing is the 'total #' that is shown at the beginning of the ls -l command as shown below.
total 68
From my understanding this is the…
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stat() is returning that existing files don't exist (C)
I'm having a really weird issue that I can't seem to solve.
I am trying to stat the files in a directory in my C program but valid files are returning -1 (the file doesn't exist). The thing is, the files are valid and do have some data in them.…
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find files by extension containing certain text and display the file path and modified date
I need to find all .txt files containing "abc" in their content and display the filepath and modified date:
Maybe something like:
> find /folder -iname '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i -n -l "abc" | xargs echo
Expected…
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Struct stat and stat function failure
So, I'm trying to make a sort of ls function. Here's my code to the description of each file
struct stat fileStat;
struct dirent **files;
num_entries = scandir(filename, &files, file_select, alphasort);
stat(files[i-1]->d_name,fileStat);
for some…
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C: Why I am getting a Segmentation Fault when trying to create a new folder/directory?
I am trying to create a new folder using two command line arguments, one being the destination folder and the other the source, but I am getting a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" error. Could you please help me figure out what is causing this…
01eg
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Data aggregation by week or by 3 days
Here is an example of my data:
Date Prec aggregated by week (output)
1/1/1950 3.11E+00 4.08E+00
1/2/1950 3.25E+00 9.64E+00
1/3/1950 4.81E+00 1.15E+01
1/4/1950 7.07E+00 …
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obtain owner name and group from stat function c++
Good day every one. I use function stat on windows to get information from file, but how i can get name from st_uid and st_gid (it's a short).
I use visual stydio 2015
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what happens if i interpret the stat() attributes when stat() for directory path fails?
i have a requirement where i need to check a given directory exists or not.
i am doing like this
structure stat buf;
stat(dir_path,buf);
if( S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode) )
cout << " its a directory " << endl;
else
cout << " its not a directory " <<…
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How to create quintile of variable in R
Is it possible to bin a variable in to quintile (1/5th) using R. And select only the variables that fall in the 5th bin.
As of now I am using the closest option which is quartile (.75) as there is not a function to do quintile.
Any suggestions…
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My ls -R doesn't work
Having issues with my ls -R implemented in C. When I run the program with command ./myls -R nothing displays, all blank:(Help needed.
int print_Recursive(char *dirname)
{
char fbuf [256];
DIR *dir;
struct dirent *dirp;
struct stat…
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Stat Structure Segmentation Fault
struct stat {
dev_t st_dev; /* ID of device containing file */
ino_t st_ino; /* inode number */
mode_t st_mode; /* protection */
nlink_t st_nlink; /* number of hard links */
uid_t st_uid; /* user ID of owner…
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solaris10 stat command not found but works in perl
I was reading a page about the performance of delete operation on thousands of files and it mentions the command below
perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'
Could anyone explain me why I have a 'command not found' while calling command 'stat'…
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