awk and shell question

[Chuck Karish]

In article <1163 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) wrote:
<LOGNAME=`who am i | awk '{
<	logname=$1
<	print logname
<	}'`
<
<a=" awk -F: '\$1 == \"$LOGNAME\" {
<	user=\$5;
<	print user
<	}'"
<USER=`cat /etc/passwd | $a`

USER=`cat /etc/passwd | eval $a`

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