Bash command/script to return group of file
 

I'm in need of a Bash command or script that will return the group of a file, so that I can store it in a variable.

I'm aware of "ls -g" but that returned:

A Linux-savvy friend of mine suggested "find file -printf %g" but that command wouldn't work, possibly because I'm using OS X's terminal.

Should I be using Perl, or I am I stuck with some ugly string concatenation?

Thanks for your help!

If you have awk installed you can do that easily with:

ls -g <filename> | awk '{print $3}'

The above will just print out the third field which is always the group with ls -g <filename>.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you, Mr. Trout.

Use stat: