Hadoop: stat: Print stats about a file

“stat” command is used to print statistics about the file/directory at <path> in the specified format.

Usage:

hadoop fs [generic options] -stat [format] <path> ...

Format Specifier	Description
%b	File size in blocks
%F	Type of file
%g	Group name of owner
%n	Name
%o	Blocksize
%r	Replication
%u	User name of owner
%y	shows UTC date as “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”
%Y	shows milliseconds since January 1, 1970 UTC

$ hadoop fs -stat "%F %u:%g %b %y %n"
/user/harikrishna_gurram/dir1/append.txt

regular file harikrishna_gurram:supergroup 20 2015-06-18 07:15:11 append.txt

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