Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Christer Ekholm
"Sayed, Irfan (Irfan)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > I am executing my $usr=qx("who am i"); to get the user id on unix > machine but it is giving error. sh: who am i: not found > > Please guide how to resolve this The problem is that you are trying to run the command "who am i" (w

Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Chas. Owens
On 10/26/07, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/26/07, Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am executing my $usr=qx("who am i"); to get the user id on unix > > machine but it is giving error. sh: who am i: not found > > > > Oops,it's `whoami` not `who am i

Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread yitzle
$ who --help Usage: who [OPTION]... [ FILE | ARG1 ARG2 ] ... -monly hostname and user associated with stdin ... If ARG1 ARG2 given, -m presumed: `am i' or `mom likes' are usual. `who am i` is the same as writing `who -m` $ whoami --help .. Same as id -un. ---

Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) wrote: Jeff Pang wrote: You're actually executing the `who` command,which just take the `am i` as its arguments. The results are the same: $ who am i pyh pts/0Oct 26 18:48 (116.21.60.xx) $ who pyh pts/0Oct 26 18:48 (116.21.60.xx) This is `whoami`

RE: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Sayed, Irfan (Irfan)
ards Irfan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Pang Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 4:54 PM To: Beginner Cc: beginners @ perl. org Subject: Re: error in qx On 10/26/07, Beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -bash-3.00$ w

Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff Pang
On 10/26/07, Beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -bash-3.00$ who am i > dpaikkos pts/14 Oct 26 12:16 (host.mydomain.com) > > Work for me on a bash shell as does whoami. No. You're actually executing the `who` command,which just take the `am i` as its arguments. The results are the same

Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Beginner
On 26 Oct 2007 at 19:14, Jeff Pang wrote: > On 10/26/07, Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am executing my $usr=qx("who am i"); to get the user id on unix > > machine but it is giving error. sh: who am i: not found > > > > Oops,it's `whoami` not `who am i` unle

Re: error in qx

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff Pang
On 10/26/07, Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am executing my $usr=qx("who am i"); to get the user id on unix > machine but it is giving error. sh: who am i: not found > Oops,it's `whoami` not `who am i` unless you have aliased it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL