file owner & group names

[Jan Schenkel]

On Unix machines you can lookup 
- the name of group id by parsing the file /etc/group 
- the name of a user id by parsing the file /etc/passwd

Should be fairly straightforward to read into a variable and turn that into something searchable. In both files, the line delimiter is a newline character and the item delimiter is a colon character - and in both files the id is the third item.

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.
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--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:

> From: Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com>
> Subject: file owner & group names
> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:58 AM
> Hi
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a way to translate the numeric
> owner and group returned in the detailed files into the
> actual names. At present I'm thinking of parsing ls -l but
> if there's another way to do it I'd be interested to know.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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