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pavan540

09-21-2015 01:04 PM

mapping of uid and user

i am trying to get the owner (name) of a file using stat() system call. But i am geting uid (uid_t) which is an integer value. How to get the username from that integer??

HMW	09-21-2015 01:43 PM

Try %U:

Code:

$ stat --format "%U" ls_uniq.sh 

HMW

Code:

man stat

Best regards,
HMW

ntubski

09-21-2015 02:16 PM

Assuming you're talking about a C program, you can try getpwuid(3) to find a user name given a uid.

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