fs.statSync(path[, options]): get the statistics or information about a file

fs.statSync(path[, options])

This method returns the statistics about a file like whether it is a directory, file or socket, lastmodified date etc.,

Below table summarizes the arguments of statSync method.

Argument	Type	Description
path	path or Buffer or URL	Specifies the path of the file.
options	Object	Below table summarizes the options of statSync function. Option Type Description bigint boolean It specifies, whether the numeric values in the returned fs.Stats object should be bigint. Default value is false.

Find the below working application.

HelloWorld.js

var fs = require('fs');

var filePath = 'input.txt';

var stats = fs.statSync(filePath);

console.log(stats);

Sample output

Stats {
  dev: 271863663,
  mode: 33206,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 0,
  gid: 0,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: undefined,
  ino: 18014398510246784,
  size: 204,
  blocks: undefined,
  atimeMs: 1535473478571.7754,
  mtimeMs: 1535477562609.0286,
  ctimeMs: 1535477562609.0286,
  birthtimeMs: 1535473478571.7754,
  atime: 2018-08-28T16:24:38.572Z,
  mtime: 2018-08-28T17:32:42.609Z,
  ctime: 2018-08-28T17:32:42.609Z,
  birthtime: 2018-08-28T16:24:38.572Z }

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