Re: [cobalt-developers] LS

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Thescripter@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi, i have a perl script that checks owner ship of files (via the ls -ls 
> command). But i have a username that is horsecenter and it on the ls -ls it
> 
> is too long and shows as horsecen, how do i change this or how can my
> scripts  view teh owner of the file?

Take a look at the perl command stat and the module File::stat ... this will
allow you to obtain the uid of the file's owner, which you can then translate
to the file's owner

#!/usr/bin/perl

use File::stat;
$st = stat("foo.pl");
print "this file is owned by" , $st->uid;


Paul

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