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` unless you have aliased it.The who command (with arguments "am" and "i") first appeared in Version 1 of AT&T UNIX. It is part of POSIX and SUS. The OP problem is the quotes around the command that is causing the shell to try to find a file named "who am i" (i.e. with spaces in the name of the file). The proper syntax is my $usr = qx(who am i); qx// is not a function; it is a quoting operator. What goes inside it should not be quoted unless you want the shell to see it quoted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
