Great, cheers Jan On 17/08/2010, at 10:40 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Monte Goulding <[email protected]> >> Subject: file owner & group names >> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage >> your subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
