Shell command to retrieve file ownership of a determed file

[Martin Thoma]

Karl Latiss wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:36 +0200, Martin Thoma wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> 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" " ...'?
>>     
>
> man stat
>
>   
Wow, that is what I was looking for :-) thanks