Okay, I have to ask...
Are you chomping your user input before you pass it to the function? Have you tested what $_ prints out? (E.g: print "\#$_\#";) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:56 AM To: Perl Beg Subject: Changing Ownership I am working on AIX 4.3 and attempting to change ownership of files. Below is an excerpt from my script of the area that is causing the problem. defined($user = getpwnam "$_") or die "Bad user name"; defined($group = getgrnam "staff") or die "Bad group name"; chdir "/home/$_"; chown $user, $group, glob "*"; The input $_ is the username either from a file or User input inside a loop. The user has a choice. When I run the above I get bad username. It is like it is trying to lookup the numeric user ID for $_ and not what $_ actually contains. If I replace $_ with an actual user name in the getpwnam function it works fine. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Grant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
