determine owner of a file

unibboy · #1 (**permalink**) 01-26-2008

Hello,

I am on a mission to determine the user of file. I have used the ls -l command but it displays permission, link, user, group, etc, but I just want to display just the name of user of a specified file.

Many thanks

nitin09 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-26-2008

ls -al |awk ' { print $3 }'

unibboy · #3 (**permalink**) 01-26-2008

thanks for that mate.

Can i be stupid to ask is there any other way to do it witout using the awk command

lucaswoods · #4 (**permalink**) 01-26-2008

stat -c %U filename

fpmurphy · #5 (**permalink**) 01-26-2008

Using Perl

Code:

use File::stat;
use User::pwent;

$filename = "$ARGV[0]";
$attrs = stat($filename);
$pwattrs = getpwuid($attrs->uid);

printf "Owner is %s (%d)\n", $pwattrs->name, $attrs->uid;

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