nixCraft

Hi all,
i am new to perl and i want to make this work
in perl.. please help

is it possible to save the output of a unix command executed in perl to be saved in hash variable..

like i have the command

`find $mypath ! -user mainuser -printf \"\%u \%h\\n\"`;

this will print all the users other than mainuser with their paths.

example this is the output:
john /johnsaddress/
john /johnspincode/
john /johnscity/
james /jamesaddress/
james /jamespincode/

i want to parse the file (1st column) and save
the strings only once along with their whole
data.
like above the result should be john and james
stored in some variable and their
corresponding data also stored.

so is possible to capture directly the result into a hash(hash of arrays) which stores the key as username and all the paths of a particular user as values.

thanks for ur help and suggestions in advance