Linux id command

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Re: Linux id command by tcf22 (Priest) on Nov 23, 2003 at 17:11 UTC
Real UID: `$<` Effective UID: `$>` Real GID: `$(` Effective GID: `$)` - Tom	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Linux id command by bart (Canon) on Nov 23, 2003 at 21:04 UTC
In addition, you can find the associated name using getgrgid()/getpwuid(). Also look at the related functions under the same perlfunc section.	[reply]
Re: Linux id command by davis (Vicar) on Nov 23, 2003 at 17:02 UTC
Search `perldoc perlvar` for UID/GID. davis It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.	[reply]
Re: Linux id command by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 23, 2003 at 22:16 UTC
The PPT project has a version of the id command	[reply]
Re: Linux id command by TVSET (Chaplain) on Nov 23, 2003 at 22:15 UTC
Quote from perldoc perlfunc: Fetching user and group info "endgrent", "endhostent", "endnetent", "endpwent", "getgrent", "getgrgid", "getgrnam", "getlogin", "getpwent", "getpwnam", "getp- wuid", "setgrent", "setpwent" Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET	[reply]