fish: stat: Unable to find a process “Y”

Question

I try to run the following command in Fish, without success:

$ stat -c %Y foo
fish: Unable to find a process “Y”

However, in Bash, it works as expected:

$ stat -c %Y foo
1548610349

I tried to put %Y into single or double quotes, even removed the space before it; it won’t work.

I am open to alternative programs, too, that would do the same, however, I’d like to know why does it not work.

Answer 1

I’ve just found [this](http://fishshell.com/docs/2.0/#escapes} page and % must be escaped with backslash in Fish.

Therefore, the following command works as expected:

stat -c \%Y foo