euser - display the effective user name, SysV-ish

Tom Neff tneff at bfmny0.UUCP
Sun Jul 9 09:10:31 AEST 1989


In article <37612 at sgi.SGI.COM> jmb at patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
>Why waste time with this?  The system V 'id' command does the
>same thing!  And, it's standard!

I wrote my little hack for situations where you need your effective
logname FAST.  It's not a complicated program.  Sys V's ID(1) is nice
but requires sed on the back end to strip out just the name, and that
slows things down.
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