[HADOOP-13233] help of stat is confusing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-alpha4
• Component/s: documentation, fs
• Labels: newbie
• Target Version/s: 2.7.4
• Assignee: Attila Bukor
• Reporter: Xiaohe Lan
• Created: 02/Jun/16 14:10
• Updated: 13/Feb/17 18:51
• Resolved: 13/Feb/17 18:38

Description

%b is actually printing the size of a file in bytes, while in help it says filesize in blocks.

hdfs dfs -help stat
-stat [format] <path> ... :
  Print statistics about the file/directory at <path>
  in the specified format. Format accepts filesize in
  blocks (%b)
...