Re: How to find owner of file or folder?

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:55:14 -0500
TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the only way that I know of to get the username who owns a
> certain file or folder, such as /usr/local/
> 
>           command ls -ld /usr/local | awk '{print $3}'
> 
> (or `ls -dn` if you want the number instead of the name)
> 
> but that seems fairly inelegant.
> 
> Is there a better way?

% zmodload -F zsh/stat b:zstat
% zstat -s +uid /usr/local/bin/zsh
root

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