Re: Home directory

2007-02-25 Thread Thomas Yan
Hello, Hi all. How do I, inside Perl, get the path of the home directory? I assume if I can do this, it will only work under Linux / Unix? Under windows you can use print $ENV{USERPROFILE} to get the home directory. such as: C:\Documents and S

Re: Home directory

2007-02-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Daniel Kasak wrote: > Hi all. Hello, > How do I, inside Perl, get the path of the home directory? > I assume if I can do this, it will only work under Linux / Unix? $ perl -le'print( ( getpwuid $< )[ -2 ] )' /home/john $ perl -le'print $ENV{ HOME }' /home/john John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, b

Re: Home directory

2007-02-25 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 2/25/07, Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I, inside Perl, get the path of the home directory? my $user_home_dir = $ENV{HOME} || (getpwuid($<))[7]; # maybe? You could also try chdir with no arguments and see where it takes you. I assume if I can do this, it will only work

Home directory

2007-02-25 Thread Daniel Kasak
Hi all. How do I, inside Perl, get the path of the home directory? I assume if I can do this, it will only work under Linux / Unix? -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: [

Re: Help with @INC

2007-02-25 Thread Rob Dixon
Carl Sajjan wrote: From: Rob Dixon Carl Sajjan wrote: I am chaged with setting up LDAP monitoring using some tool. I came across this Look.pl utility. But when I try to run this file I got the error... I am a newbie to PERL. perl look.pl /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib//sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5