Linux Stat command

A very handy command for Linux user which displays all the relevant information for files is stat
The command is equivalent to right click properties in windows.</p>

It is  useful  to check the access Modify and change time of file

$> stat qrecent
  File: `qrecent'
  Size: 1082            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 804h/2052d      Inode: 560742      Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 3000/ rubicon)   Gid: ( 3000/ rubicon)
Access: 2010-04-06 01:01:13.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2010-04-06 01:01:13.000000000 -0400
Change: 2010-04-06 01:01:13.000000000 -0400</div>

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