Monthly Archives: January 2012

stat – display file or file system status

UNIX Command

$stat /usr/sbin/famd 
  File: `/usr/sbin/famd'
  Size: 147504    	Blocks: 304        IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d	Inode: 7572257     Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2012-01-24 00:00:54.000000000 +0530
Modify: 2010-08-03 15:32:44.000000000 +0530
Change: 2012-01-24 00:00:07.000000000 +0530
 Birth: -
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UNIX Explanation

 Display file or file system status.

/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg

File

$ls -l /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 Sep 14  2010 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
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Explanation

$file /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg: ASCII English text
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Get The Hang

$cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
# dpkg configuration file
#
# This file can contain default options for dpkg.  All command-line
# options are allowed.  Values can be specified by putting them after
# the option, separated by whitespace and/or an `=' sign.
#

# Do not enable debsig-verify by default; since the distribution is not using
# embedded signatures, debsig-verify would reject all packages.
no-debsig

# Log status changes and actions to a file.
log /var/log/dpkg.log
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