how to extract owner from find command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi
how can I extract the owner of the file from the find command that I used below

find /home -type f -atime +5

I tried something like this but didnt work.

find /home -type f -atime +5 -ls |cut -f5

2

One way:

find /home -type f -atime +5 -exec ls -l {} \;| awk 'print $4}'

Regards

3

It worked,
but I dont undestand this
why do we use
-exec ls -l {} \;|
why not only ls -l

4

With the exec command the '{}' is replaced by the current file name, check the manpage of find.

Regards

5

Actually if your find supports the -ls action, that's fine, too. The problem with cut is that it expects tab-delimited output; you can change that, but using awk instead might be simpler.

6

thanks