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. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
