: '''file stat''' ''name varName''
Invokes the '''[stat]''' kernel call on ''name'', and uses the variable given
by ''varName'' to hold information returned from the kernel call. ''VarName''
is treated as an array variable, and the following elements of that variable
are set: '''atime''', '''ctime''', '''dev''', '''gid''', '''ino''', '''mode''',
'''mtime''', '''nlink''', '''size''', '''type''', '''uid'''. On some
platforms, including [POSIX]-like systems, '''blksize''' and '''blocks''', are
also provided.
Each element except '''type''' is a decimal string with the value of the corresponding field from the '''stat''' return structure; see the manual entry for '''stat''' for details on the meanings of the values. The '''type''' element gives the type of the file in the same form returned by the command '''[file type]'''. This command returns an empty string.
----[AMG]: Maybe we can extend [[file stat]] to not require the ''varName'' argument. If omitted, it would instead return a [dict] containing everything that would have gone into the ''varName'' array.
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A combination of '''[glob]''' and '''file stat''' can be used, for instance, to implement [ls -l in Tcl].
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**See also**
* [file]
* [file atime]
* [file attributes]
* [file lstat]
* [file mtime]
* [file size]
* [file type]
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