Re: Finding the current user

[James Reynolds]

Thanks everyone!  I suppose I should learn all the special variables 
after all...

James
At 7:52 PM -0500 1/5/06, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:

If you need more than the numeric user ID, have a look at:

        perldoc getpwnam
        perldoc User::pwent

D'oh! getpwnam() is a function (not a module), so that should be:

        perldoc -f getpwnam
        perldoc User::pwent

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