owner of file or dir

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:39:01PM +0000, Muhammad Rizwan wrote:
> Is it possible to know the user name who owns the file or directory.
> Just user name not any other info.

You can parse out the result from ls -l, but this is cleaner:

$ stat --format %U .bashrc
ewilts

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