Re: [tlug] Quota tricks in perl

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:43:23PM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> I've seen several perl scripts for looking at (or even
> manipuulating) quotas, but they were all missing one
> trick I want:  to find the owner of each directory
> below the current one and check that user's quota and usage, so
> I need to modify one for that little bit.
> 
> I was thinking that the way to do this is to do the equivalent
> of ls -l in the current directory, split that line on whitespace,
> and extract the owner, but haven't been able to find the way to
> do that.  Anyone know where I can find instructions for this, or
> a ready-made one?  Or of course, a better way to do it if I'm
> all wet here :-)
> 
> Shell-script is OK, too, but I'm more familiar with perl.
> 
> Tx,
> 
> Jonathan

perldoc File::Find
perldoc -f stat

that should give you everything you need to do what you want in
perl. If that leaves you a bit lost let me know and I will try
to hack up a script it should be fun.

--Matt
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