Re: Getting the UID of a file

Or (for the OO inclined), there is:

use File::stat; # yes, that's a lower-case s
print stat($file)->uid;
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Re: Re: Getting the UID of a file by Hofmator (Curate) on Jan 09, 2004 at 12:15 UTC
but beware of the BUGS: `As of Perl 5.8.0 after using this module you cannot use the implicit $_ or the special filehandle "_" with stat() or lstat(), trying to do so leads into strange errors. The workaround is for $_ to be explicit my $stat_obj = stat $_; and for "_" to explicitly populate the object using the unexported and undocumented populate() function with CORE::stat(): my $stat_obj = File::stat::populate(CORE::stat(_));` [download] -- Hofmator	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Getting the UID of a file
by Hofmator (Curate) on Jan 09, 2004 at 12:15 UTC

but beware of the BUGS:

       As of Perl 5.8.0 after using this module you cannot use
       the implicit $_ or the special filehandle "_" with stat()
       or lstat(), trying to do so leads into strange errors.
       The workaround is for $_ to be explicit

           my $stat_obj = stat $_;

       and for "_" to explicitly populate the object using the
       unexported and undocumented populate() function with
       CORE::stat():

           my $stat_obj = File::stat::populate(CORE::stat(_));
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