Re: Implementing file-attributes with "stat"?

[Norbert Koch]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

Hi!

> How portable is stat?  Does it behave similarly on all systems where
> it is available, or are there very different implementations?
> (Cf. uuencode and uudecode; there are many implementations out that
> that differ quite a bit.)

You're talking about a command called 'stat'?  This is not available
on stock FreeBSD (though it's part of the port collection, ie an
additional package).

norbert.