I am working on a perl script to set permissions on a couple of directories.

I received the details of what needs to be done from someone I'm trying to help out. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a Unix guy, so please excuse my ignorance. I have figured out how to do everything below EXCEPT set the file permissions. I have found documentation on chown, but am not sure how to retrieve the uid and gid at runtime. My Linux book says there's a whoami command which is the same as id -un however, I cannot find an equivalant perl method for either of these.

Any assistance in figuring this out is appreciated. Below are the commands I am attempting to script. Specifically I do not know how to do the Chown stuff in Perl. 

Cd /home/myname
Mkdir www
Cd www
Mkdir htdocs
Mkdir logs
Cd ..
Chown myname:nobody www –R
Cd ..
Chown myname:nobody {USER}

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Thanks.

In reply to whoami? by Anonymous Monk

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