The stat command tells you information about a file at the filesystem level.
Some common thing I use:
stat -c "%n -- %s" # name and size, separated by --
stat -c "%w" # creation time
stat -c "%x %y %z" # other timesjust running stat file tells you everything in a nicely formatted way.
$ stat google-chrome-stable_current_amd64_2023-03-30.deb
File: google-chrome-stable_current_amd64_2023-03-30.deb
Size: 93863956 Blocks: 183344 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 36191876 Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ john) Gid: ( 1000/ john)
Access: 2023-03-30 13:07:17.341658398 +0100
Modify: 2023-03-30 12:32:00.519738325 +0100
Change: 2023-03-30 13:07:07.201715284 +0100
Birth: 2023-03-30 12:28:51.964789312 +0100