How to view a files owner if username is + 8 chars?

How to view a files owner if username is + 8 chars?

[Brandon Evans]

	I'm a little embarrassed to be asking such a newb question like this, 
but how would I view a files owner if username is + 8 chars?  Is there a 
simple ls option (I couldnt find it) to do this?  Or perhaps another 
command I am forgetting about?  Other then greping the passwd file, how 
would one find this information out?



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Thanks,
     Brandon E.

Re: How to view a files owner if username is + 8 chars?

[Glynn Clements]

Brandon Evans wrote:

> 	I'm a little embarrassed to be asking such a newb question like this, 
> but how would I view a files owner if username is + 8 chars?  Is there a 
> simple ls option (I couldnt find it) to do this?  Or perhaps another 
> command I am forgetting about?  Other then greping the passwd file, how 
> would one find this information out?

The "stat" utility can handle usernames longer than 8 characters.
So can the '%u' directive for "find ... -printf ...".

You can get roughly the same behaviour as "ls -l" with:

find $dir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -printf '%04m %3n %8u %8g %9s %Tb %Td %TY %f %l\n'

except that the above will expand fields to the specified width but
won't truncate them if they are longer.

Unfortunately, you can't get the permissions in rwxr-xr-x format, you
can't get it display the type (file, directory etc), and you can't get
the variable date/time format (i.e. display the time for recent files,
display the year for older ones).

BTW, "find" also has an "-ls" option, which is similar to "ls -ls",
but that also truncates the user/group to 8 characters.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>

Re: How to view a files owner if username is + 8 chars?

[Brandon Evans]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Brandon Evans wrote:
> 

> 
> The "stat" utility can handle usernames longer than 8 characters.
> So can the '%u' directive for "find ... -printf ...".
> 
> You can get roughly the same behaviour as "ls -l" with:
> 
> find $dir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -printf '%04m %3n %8u %8g %9s %Tb %Td %TY %f %l\n'
> 

nice. stat will work just fine.  Thank you!


-- 
Thanks,
     Brandon E.