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finding owner of a file or dir in Unix [message #226476]

Sat, 24 March 2007 00:13

a_developer
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This is not really related to Oracle, but rather to Unix - so please bear with me. I am using Linux and new to Unix. I would like to find the owner of a file or directory. I tried

stat [Option] filename

, but unfortunately -u for option does not work... any advise?? Thanks.

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Re: finding owner of a file or dir in Unix [message #226478 is a reply to message #226476]

Sat, 24 March 2007 00:23

BlackSwan
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ls -l
ls -l filename.dat

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Re: finding owner of a file or dir in Unix [message #226483 is a reply to message #226478]

Sat, 24 March 2007 01:44

a_developer
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Thanks. But that will display everything. In that case, I would have to extract the value in the owner column. Is it possible to get only the owner id with a single command??

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Re: finding owner of a file or dir in Unix [message #226516 is a reply to message #226476]

Sat, 24 March 2007 08:46

orausern
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use cut command with that output and that should do.don't have access to unix today, but u can experiment and figure out.

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Re: finding owner of a file or dir in Unix [message #226518 is a reply to message #226476]

Sat, 24 March 2007 08:51

BlackSwan
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alterntively you could use "awk", but in either case you might be force to RTFM or in this case the man pages; unless you insist upon being spoon fed a total solution.

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Re: finding owner of a file or dir in Unix [message #226626 is a reply to message #226518]

Sun, 25 March 2007 23:23

a_developer
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Thanks to all of you.. I was just wondering if there is really a simple command to extract the file's owner.. I'm new to Unix and hence don't know if such command at all exists... I'll take it from here.. thanks again.

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