file modified by user

ranjeeth

I would like to know how would u find out the username of the file last modified.

Adam Stoller

I would like to know how would u find out the username of the file last modified.

The correct phrasing of the question is: How does one determine the user who last modified a file?

Depending on the operating system, processes that may have been involved when it was last modified, and the programming language you are using (we'll assume Perl since that's what this forum is for), it may be difficult to determine the actual user who last modified a file. Doing a stat call on the file is one method, but you may have to resort to running a system process to run the iwattrib CLT. (see perldoc -f stat and/or the TeamSite CLT manual, respectively, for more details)