how to find out USERNAME from a given file?

slok has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

how can I find out who owns a particular file?
I will need the username rather than the user id.

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Re: how to find out USERNAME from a given file? by AgentM (Curate) on Apr 22, 2001 at 09:36 UTC
Use the fourth element in lstat/stat and use getpwuid. The username is the first element returned. Perhaps not overly OS-independent, but it gets the job done under UN*X. AgentM Systems nor Nasca Enterprises nor Bone::Easy nor Macperl is responsible for the comments made by AgentM. Remember, you can build any logical system with NOR.	[reply]
Re: Re: how to find out USERNAME from a given file? by slok (Acolyte) on Apr 22, 2001 at 09:54 UTC
thanks..	[reply]