Get Owner of a file

[Charles Heizer]

Hello,
I'm fairly new to ruby, most of my scripting has been done in TCL and I
decided to learn a new language.

Anyways, I would like to know if there is an easay way to get the owner
of a file

For Example :
o = file.owner

Thanks

 

[Farrel Lifson]

File::Stat allows you to retrieve the numeric user ID (UID) of the
owner of the file:
File.stat("testfile").uid
You can also get the Group ID with
File.stat("testfile").gid

Regards,
Farrel Lifson

Aimred - Ruby Development and Consulting
http://www.aimred.com

 

[Charles Heizer]

Thanks, that did the trick!

 

[Marcelo]

Anyways, I would like to know if there is an easay way to get the owner
of a file

For Example :
o = file.owner

File.stat("/etc/motd").uid => 0

That should do the trick,

Marcelo