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Old 08-12-2008
how to extract owner from find command
hi
how can I extract the owner of the file from the find command that I used below

find /home -type f -atime +5

I tried something like this but didnt work.

find /home -type f -atime +5 -ls |cut -f5
# 2  
Old 08-12-2008
One way:

Code:
find /home -type f -atime +5 -exec ls -l {} \;| awk 'print $4}'

Regards
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Old 08-12-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
One way:

Code:
find /home -type f -atime +5 -exec ls -l {} \;| awk 'print $4}'

Regards
It worked,
but I dont undestand this
why do we use
-exec ls -l {} \;|
why not only ls -l
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Old 08-12-2008
With the exec command the '{}' is replaced by the current file name, check the manpage of find.

Regards
# 5  
Old 08-12-2008
Actually if your find supports the -ls action, that's fine, too. The problem with cut is that it expects tab-delimited output; you can change that, but using awk instead might be simpler.
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Old 08-12-2008
thanks
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