Re^3: How to get group ownership of a file

It can't be all numbers, right?

On the contrary (for unix-like systems, at least), the uid and gid are always numeric. To get the name (string) associated with a given numeric gid value, you need to grep for that number in /etc/groups (and to get the user login name for a given uid, you look up the uid in /etc/passwd).

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Re^4: How to get group ownership of a file by chargrill (Parson) on Feb 26, 2006 at 23:22 UTC
Or this: `perl -e '$groupname=getgrgid("33200");print "groupname: $groupname\n"'` [download] --chargrill `$/ = q#(\w)# ; sub sig { print scalar reverse join ' ', @_ } + sig map { s$\$/\$/$\$2\$1$g && $_ } split( ' ', ",erckha rlPe erthnoa stJu +" );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: How to get group ownership of a file by linux454 (Pilgrim) on Feb 28, 2006 at 16:53 UTC
And this for the username: `perl -e '$username=getpwuid("33197");print "username: $username\n"'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]