[jbedo465]

Hi all,

I need to find out all of the information about a file entered as a command line argument.
I'm using stat() to find out the simpler information such as file size and date last accessed. However, I need to find other info, such as the username of the file owner, not just their uid, as well as their groups, not just there gid. I can find the uid and gid fine with stat(). No idea how to find this stuff. Searched online but there was surprisingly little stuff about stat. Also, with the dates accessed, it gives it in seconds since 1970. How would I convert that to a date? Here is what I have so far:

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <grp.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <langinfo.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
  FILE *fp;
  struct stat fileAtt;

    if(stat(argv[1], &fileAtt) == 0){
      printf("File Name: %s\n", argv[1]);
      printf("UID : %d\nGID : %d\n", fileAtt.st_uid, fileAtt.st_gid);
      printf("File size is: %lu\n", fileAtt.st_size);
      printf("Last accessed: %u\n", fileAtt.st_atime);
    }

return 0;
}

Thanks in advance,
JB

[Martyn.Rae]

I would use the GetFileInformationByHandle Windows API call. Details may be found here.

[sarmanu]

He uses UNIX based system. Look at the header files his program uses.

This post has been edited by sarmanu: 04 March 2010 - 11:50 AM

[jbedo465]

Yea, I'm using UNIX.

[Martyn.Rae]

Thanks sarmanu, I have now put my glasses on and can see much better.

[JackOfAllTrades]

For time functions, Google man 3 time, or type man 3 time into the Unix shell.

[jbedo465]

Thanks for the help with the dates. Got that working, any idea for the other information? Still need to find Username, I can only get UID.

Thanks,
JB

[JackOfAllTrades]

man getpwuid