July 9, 2021 . 1 MIN READ
You can do this: 1st way:
ls -l /path/to/file
*the third field in the ls -l output is the user and the fourth is the group
2nd way:
stat /path/to/file
$ stat py
File: `py'
Size: 32 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 429064 Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/ razvan) Gid: ( 1000/ razvan)
Access: 2012-07-27 17:49:05.682143441 +0300
Modify: 2012-07-01 03:58:02.848540175 +0300
Change: 2012-08-01 21:12:57.129819212 +0300
The razvan in the Uid field is the owner/user, the razvan in the Gid field is the group. 8-|
3rd way: Get only the user and group with stat:
stat -c "%U %G" /path/to/file
http://askubuntu.com/questions/175054/how-to-find-owner-and-group-of-a-directory