> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Thoma > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:36 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Shell command to retrieve file ownership of a determed file > > Hi > > I am writing a shell script that is verifies ownership and > the file access permissions of selected files. Is there a > tool that allows me to retrieve the uid,gid and mode directly > instead of 'ls -l | grep <filename> | cut -d" " ...'? > > Thanks for a hint. > > Cheers Martin The best thing I know of is not too much different from what you have: ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $1}' ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $3}' ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $4}' or ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $1" "$3" "$4}' Michael -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list