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I read your post so I guess something like that should be better :).

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use IPC::Run qw( run timeout );

sub rename_account {
    my ($in, $out, $err);
    my ( $name , $nname ) = ( @_ );
    my @usename = ("usermod", "-l", "$nname", "$name");
    run \@usename, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 ) or die "Error: $?
+";
    say "OUT: $out" if $out;
    say "Error: $err" if $err;

    my @changeHomeDir = ("usermod", "-d", "/home/$nname", "-m", "$nnam
+e");
    run \@changeHomeDir, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 ) or die "Err
+or: $?";
    say "OUT: $out" if $out;
    say "Error: $err" if $err;

    my @homeDir = ("ls", "-la", "/home");
    run \@homeDir, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 ) or die "Error: $?
+";
    chomp $out;
    return $out if $out;
    return "Error: $err" if $err;
}

say rename_account("monk", "testUser");
# say rename_account("testUser", "monk");

__END__

$ sudo perl test.pl
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Mar 21 19:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root     root     4096 Mar  5 20:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 testUser testUser 4096 Mar 21 19:16 testUser
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Update: Adding minor conversion STDOUT to array for better data manipulation.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use feature 'say';
use IPC::Run qw( run timeout );

sub rename_account {
    my ($in, $out, $err);
    my ( $name , $nname ) = ( @_ );
    my @usename = ("usermod", "-l", "$nname", "$name");
    run \@usename, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 ) or die "Error: $?
+";
    say "OUT: $out" if $out;
    say "Error: $err" if $err;

    my @changeHomeDir = ("usermod", "-d", "/home/$nname", "-m", "$nnam
+e");
    run \@changeHomeDir, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 ) or die "Err
+or: $?";
    say "OUT: $out" if $out;
    say "Error: $err" if $err;

    my @homeDir = ("ls", "-la", "/home");
    run \@homeDir, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 ) or die "Error: $?
+";
    my @data = split "\n", $out;
    return \@data if @data;
    return "Error: $err" if $err;
}

# print Dumper rename_account("monk", "testuser");
print Dumper rename_account("testuser", "monk");

__END__

$ sudo perl test.pl
$VAR1 = [
          'total 12',
          'drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root     4096 Mar 22 10:46 .',
          'drwxr-xr-x 24 root   root     4096 Mar  7 15:04 ..',
          'drwxr-xr-x  2 monk   testuser 4096 Mar 22 10:43 monk',
        ];
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Thank you for the information. BR / Thanos

Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!

In reply to Re^3: Linux::usermod - user name ... already exists by thanos1983
in thread Linux::usermod - user name ... already exists by mldvx4

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