Finding the user name via the shell
Phil Eschallier
phile at lgnp1.LS.COM
Thu Dec 8 08:40:44 AEST 1988
In article <6323 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, mdella at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) writes:
> I was wondering if anyone out there knew how to determine the users
> login name while running a shell script. I can get the home address
> $HOME, but not the name. This is under sco xenix 2.2.3 I think...
>
try this:
NAME=`logname`
echo $NAME
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