`mc stat`

Syntax

The mc stat command displays information on objects in a MinIO bucket, including object metadata.

You can also use mc stat against the local filesystem to produce similar results to the stat commandline tool.

EXAMPLE

The following command displays information on all objects in the mydata bucket on the myminio MinIO deployment:

mc stat --recursive myminio/mydata

SYNTAX

The command has the following syntax:

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] stat                      \
                 [--encrypt-key "value"]   \
                 [--recursive]             \
                 [--rewind "string"]       \
                 [--versions]              \
                 [--version-id "string"]*  \
                 ALIAS [ALIAS ...]

Brackets [] indicate optional parameters.
Parameters sharing a line are mutually dependent.
Parameters separated using the pipe | operator are mutually exclusive.

Copy the example to a text editor and modify as-needed before running the command in the terminal/shell.

mc stat --version-id is mutually exclusive with multiple parameters. See the reference documentation for more information.

Parameters

ALIAS

Required

The alias of a MinIO deployment and the full path to the object for which to retrieve detailed information. For example:

mc stat myminio/mybucket/myobject.txt

You can specify multiple objects on the same or different MinIO deployments:

mc stat play/mybucket/myobject.txt myminio/mybucket/myobject.txt

If specifying the path to a bucket or bucket prefixy, you must include the mc stat --recursive flag:

mc stat --recursive myminio/mybucket/

For retrieving information on a file from a local filesystem, specify the full path to that file:

mc stat ~/data/myobject.txt

--encrypt-key

Optional

Encrypt or decrypt objects using server-side encryption with client-specified keys. Specify key-value pairs as KEY=VALUE.

Each KEY represents a bucket or object.
Each VALUE represents the data key to use for encrypting
object(s).

Enclose the entire list of key-value pairs passed to --encrypt-key in double quotes ".

--encrypt-key can use the MC_ENCRYPT_KEY environment variable for retrieving a list of encryption key-value pairs as an alternative to specifying them on the command line.

--recursive, r: Optional
Recursively mc stat the contents of the MinIO bucket specified to ALIAS.

--rewind

Optional

Directs mc stat to operate only on the object version(s) that existed at specified point-in-time.

To rewind to a specific date in the past, specify the date as an ISO8601-formatted timestamp. For example: --rewind "2020.03.24T10:00".
To rewind a duration in time, specify the duration as a string in #d#hh#mm#ss format. For example: --rewind "1d2hh3mm4ss".

--rewind requires that the specified ALIAS be an S3-compatible service that supports Bucket Versioning. For MinIO deployments, use mc version to enable or disable bucket versioning.

--versions

Optional

Directs mc stat to operate on all object versions that exist in the bucket.

--versions requires that the specified ALIAS be an S3-compatible service that supports Bucket Versioning. For MinIO deployments, use mc version to enable or disable bucket versioning.

Use --versions and --rewind together to remove all object versions which existed at a specific point in time.

--version-id, vid

Optional

Directs mc stat to operate only on the specified object version.

--version-id requires that the specified ALIAS be an S3-compatible service that supports Bucket Versioning. For MinIO deployments, use mc version to enable or disable bucket versioning.

Mutually exclusive with any of the following flags:

--versions
--rewind
--recursive

Examples

Single Object

mc stat ALIAS/PATH

Replace ALIAS with the alias of the S3-compatible host.
Replace PATH with the path to the bucket or object on the S3-compatible host.

Object(s) in Bucket

Use mc stat with the --recursive option to apply the operation to all objects in the bucket:

mc stat --recursive ALIAS/PATH

Replace ALIAS with the alias of the S3-compatible host.
Replace PATH with the path to the bucket or object on the S3-compatible host.

Behavior

S3 Compatibility

The mc commandline tool is built for compatibility with the AWS S3 API and is tested with MinIO and AWS S3 for expected functionality and behavior.

MinIO provides no guarantees for other S3-compatible services, as their S3 API implementation is unknown and therefore unsupported. While mc commands may work as documented, any such usage is at your own risk.