The ls command shows me the userid instead of username how can I fix this?

Question

I am new to unix scripting, learning it experimenting my own ways. But then I was trying to list the directory and found numbers like 1000 and 1001.

I google and understood that those are the userid's I verified the same. But then I wish to display the username for readability on the unix ls command.

Please help me and guide on the same.

Thanks ^_^

-- Edit_1

When I type the "ls -al" the out put of that was as mentioned below.

Image of ls -al output

But then in that there were id's like 1000 of the owner and I wanted the name of the user instead of the id.

--Solution

I have logged in as root user and used the below command.

sudo chown -R :

And the above solution worked and I am able to see the username instead of userid.

The link to the actual answer is [this][2]

Thank you all for the help :)

What exact command did you run? Was it ls -l? Could it have been ls -n? What is the output of type ls? — terdon, Jun 05 '19 at 10:30
As always it is best to see your question with the command entered and output displayed when you copy and paste your screen into your question. — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Jun 05 '19 at 11:03
Can you post an answer and accept it? Otherwise your question can keep reappearing as unanswered. — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Jun 06 '19 at 12:29
Apologies. Please check I have posted the answer also I included the image in the question but then it appears as a link is that the right way of displaying image ? — Abhi, Jun 09 '19 at 06:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '19 at 11:03

When you first install Windows Subsystem for Linux there are no user IDs setup. You need to create one first:

Add User to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Distro in Windows 10

There are times when User IDs cannot get created properly in which case installing the most recent version of WSL from Microsoft Store is best course of action:

WSL / Bash on Windows 10: Creating UNIX user failed, returned error code 10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '19 at 06:57

To get the username instead of the userid we need to own the directory for that the below is the command which needs super user access.

sudo chown -R username:usergroup dirname

Once you own the dir try ls -al then the result will display your name as owner of the dir instead of userid.

Thank you all for the help and support :)

The ls command shows me the userid instead of username how can I fix this?

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