fileown(1) fileown(1)
NAME
fileown - print the owner (or group) of the specified files
SYNOPSIS
fileown [-b(oth_ids)] [-f file_list] [-g(roup_id)] [-h(elp)]
[-n(umbers)] [-p(ipe)] [-q(uiet)] [-v(erbose)] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
fileown prints out (by default) the owner and/or (optionally) the group
of the specified files.
OPTIONS
-h Print help and quit.
-b Print both the user name and the group name, in a chown-compati-
ble format.
-f filelist
Read the names of files to be processed from the specified file.
-g Print the group name instead of the user name.
-n Print user and/or group ID numbers instead of names.
-p Read the names of files to be processed from stdin.
-q Quiet output. Do not print the filename with program output.
-v Verbose output. Print the filename with program output.
NOTES
The program defaults to quiet for a single file and verbose for multi-
ple files. The -f and -p options can be used simultaneously with file-
names specified on the command-line. If no valid user name or group
name is found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, then the program
will drop back to printing user ID or group ID numbers.
Note that this program operates very similarly to stat -c '%U',
stat -c '%u', stat -c '%G', and stat -c '%g'. If you are trying to
write highly portable shell scripts, you might consider using stat
instead.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2020 by Brian Lindholm. This program is free soft-
ware; you can use it, redistribute it, and/or modify it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
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