getpwuid
getpwuid uid
Retrieves the passwd file entry
with the user ID uid
. The return value
in list context is:
($name,$passwd,$uid,$gid,$quota,$comment,$gcos,$dir,$shell)
If you want to do this repeatedly, consider slurping the
data into a hash using getpwent
.
In scalar context, getpwuid
returns the username.
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