Command for inode:

Inode in Linux:

An inode is a data structure in Unix and Linux file systems, which contains information about a file or directory such as its size, owner, device node, socket, pipe, etc. There are two commands that can be used to view a file or directory’s inode, and they are ls and stat.

Using ls command:When used with the -i flag the ls command results for each file containing the file’s inode number:

Example:


$ ls -li

Output:


276944 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337 Oct  4 11:31 /etc/hosts

Using stat command:The example will show status of the /hosts directory seen above:

Example:


$ stat ./hosts

Output:


File: ./hosts
Size: 4096         Blocks: 8      IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d      Inode: 276944      Links: 16
Access:(0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (33/www-data) Gid: (33/www-data)
Access: 2019-12-06 13:33:13.194964943 +0000
Modify: 2019-06-04 01:47:16.000000000 +0000
Change: 2019-12-06 13:33:05.246318669 +0000