On Aug 16, Rus Foster said: >On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello, >> does anybody know a possibility how to ascertain the current User (User Id, >> Username) ? >> I thougt of using a module but couldn't find one. > >Have you tired parsing the output from the commands "id -h" and "id -u"?
Perl is not the shell. You shouldn't have to spawn (OS-specific!) programs every time you want to get information from the system. For example, directory listings can be done with glob() or readdir() -- there's no need to call `ls` or `dir`. Perl puts the current user ID in $< (or $UID if you're using the English module). You can get information about that user ID from the getpwuid() function. perldoc -f getpwuid -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
