src/nnn.c | 4 ++++

diff --git a/src/nnn.c b/src/nnn.c
index 8500b783f0caf75250134442dff704f519def0af..82ec9467bb08914347ffa6cbeb90964a014a6183 100644
--- a/src/nnn.c
+++ b/src/nnn.c
@@ -4526,7 +4526,11 @@ #ifdef FILE_MIME_OPTS
 		("file " FILE_MIME_OPTS),
 #endif
 		"file -b",
+#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__)
+		"stat -x",
+#else
 		"stat",
+#endif
 	};
 
 	size_t r = ELEMENTS(cmds);