Owner of a directory

[John O'Loughlin]

ls -ld /path/to/dir

in a script you could

ls -ld /path/to/dir | awk '{print 3}'

there are probably lots of other ways as well

John

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Tech Rams wrote:

> hi
>    I am looking for a way to know the owner of a directory/file. There is the obvious way of parsing the output of ls, but did not find much beyond that.
>    Is there a better way (that works inside of a shell script)?
>
> thanks,
> Rams
>
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