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Hello sadly it does not work. executing this:

#!/usr/bin/perl


use warnings;
use strict;

my $account = "tata";

my ( $name, $passwd, $uid, $gid, $quota, $comment, $gcos, $dir, $shell
+, $expire ) = getpwent($account);

if ( defined $uid ) {
   print "User $account uid=$uid.  OK to delete user!\n";
}
else {
   print "User $account does not exist...\n";
}
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gives me errors:

syntax error at ./users_detect.pl line 9, near "($account" Execution of ./users_detect.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

if I do not put the getpwent($account) it compiles but always returns uid=0 whatever the account

In reply to Re^2: use getpwent to find users and delete them by garcimo
in thread use getpwent to find users and delete them by garcimo

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