From: Bruce Woodward <bruce.woodward@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T17:48:25+09:00
Subject: Re: perl to ruby

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 For efficiency, wouldn't using the Etc module would be best?

require 'etc'
user = ARGV[0] or abort "missing user name"
puts (if (Etc.getpwnam(user)).uid >= 1000
  `finger #{user}`.gsub(/\n/,"<br>")
  else
    "wal sie na rj....."
  end)

On 3/13/07, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> And in pure ruby,
>
> id = IO.readlines
> ('/etc/passwd').grep(/#{usr}/).first.split(/:/).at(2).to_i
>
> or for efficiency
>
> File.open("/etc/passwd", "r") {|f| id =
> f.grep(/#{usr}/).first.split(/:/).at(2).to_i}
>
>
>

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