Re: whoami?

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Matija Papec wrote:

> is there a more elegant way to find out who is running a script? %ENV is
> not reliable and it doesn't contain USER when booting the system, and
> "whoami" is external command(yuck :) ) tnx!

my $user = getpwuid($<);

$< contains the uid of the user.  $> if it's a setuid program.

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