Shell command to retrieve file ownership of a determed file

[Martin Thoma]

Michael Velez wrote:
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>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Martin Thoma
>> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:36 AM
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>> Subject: Shell command to retrieve file ownership of a determed file
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>> Hi
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>> I am writing a shell script that is verifies ownership and 
>> the file access permissions of selected files. Is there a 
>> tool that allows me to retrieve the uid,gid and mode directly 
>> instead of 'ls -l | grep <filename> | cut -d" " ...'?
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>> Thanks for a hint.
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>> Cheers Martin
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> The best thing I know of is not too much different from what you have:
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> ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $1}'
> ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $3}'
> ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $4}'
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> or ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $1" "$3" "$4}'
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> Michael
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Thanks for your hint Michael. I am using now something like:

 ls -l | awk '$9  ~ /<filename>/ {print $3, $4}'


Cheers