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Re: Re: whoami?
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Nov 20, 2000 at 23:56 UTC
    The UID and GID are kept in the standard Perl variables $</$> and $(/$). You can then discover the username via getpwuid: 
    print "Your username is: ", getpwuid($<) || "unknown???", "\n";

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    This allows you to get this information without ever needing to spawn an external process.
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