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>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Flanigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Gro�johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> If you wanted to be wicked-gross, you could look for perl and do:
Ian> perl -e 'print "uid=$> euid=$< groups=$( egroups=$)\n";'
Kai> Please note that the problem is to find out the numeric user id
Kai> for a given user name.
Perl makes that just as easy. I presume Python and many other
scripting langs do as well -- though I imagine 'twould be best to
limit oneself to interpreters which accept an arg a la Perl's -e....
perl -e 'print getpwnam("username")."\n"'
which may be better written as:
perl -e 'print scalar(getpwnam("username")),"\n"'
or as:
perl -e 'print (getpwnam("username"))[2],"\n"'
Use getgrnam and "groupname" for converting group names to gids.
Another solution would be to write a one-liner which is the functional
equivalent of the invocation of (the instance of) ls(1) you prefer.
I bet Perl would be up to that task....
And by using one-liners, you needn't leave any droppings behind on the
remote box.
Of course, if the shell's input buffer is too small for a given NQaOL
(think Sellers and diamonds :), just dump the script to perl's STDIN
and get the result from its STDOUT.
P.S. Couldn't resist. Perl is fun. Elisp is fun. Mixing the
two *must* :) be a blast.
- -JimC
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