On 20 Mar 2006 at 10:23, Paul Heinlein wrote:

stat -c %U filename

The stat(1) man page has format details; it's part of the coreutils rpm

Thank you. This is far more elegant than my solution:

_SVNUSER_=$(ls -l /var/spool/svn/db/__db.001 | cut -d" " -f4)

Regards, Jim

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