On Unix machines you can lookup - the name of group id by parsing the file /etc/group - the name of a user id by parsing the file /etc/passwd
Should be fairly straightforward to read into a variable and turn that into something searchable. In both files, the line delimiter is a newline character and the item delimiter is a colon character - and in both files the id is the third item. HTH, Jan Schenkel. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Tue, 8/17/10, Monte Goulding <mo...@sweattechnologies.com> wrote: > From: Monte Goulding <mo...@sweattechnologies.com> > Subject: file owner & group names > To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> > Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:58 AM > Hi > > I'm wondering if there is a way to translate the numeric > owner and group returned in the detailed files into the > actual names. At present I'm thinking of parsing ls -l but > if there's another way to do it I'd be interested to know. > > Cheers > > Monte_______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
