How to find owner and group of a directory

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

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