It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...

$ stat /etc/ passwd File: ` /etc/ passwd' Size: 70980 Blocks: 152 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 6802h / 26626d Inode: 3877639 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0 ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode ...

My usual strategy for dealing with oddly named files is to list the file’s inode number. After that, I can use the inode number in a file command to remove the file or give it a more well ...