Okay, I have to ask...
Are you chomping your user input before you pass it to the function?
Have you tested what $_ prints out? (E.g: print \#$_\#;)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:56 AM
To: Perl Beg
Subject: Changing Ownership
I am working on AIX 4.3 and attempting to change
ownership of files. Below is an excerpt from my script
of the area that is causing the problem.
defined($user = getpwnam $_) or die Bad user name;
defined($group = getgrnam staff) or die Bad group
name;
chdir /home/$_;
chown $user, $group, glob *;
The input $_ is the username either from a file or User
input inside
a loop. The user
has a choice. When I run the above I get bad username.
It is like it is trying to lookup the numeric user ID
for $_ and not
what $_ actually contains. If I replace $_
with an actual user name in the getpwnam function it
works fine.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
Grant
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