Finding the user name via the shell

[Michael R. Johnston]

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...

The correct answer is to use the variable $LOGNAME. That will return the users
login name. The users REAL NAME is a different story. That could be done as
follows:

REALNAME=`grep "^$LOGNAME:" /etc/password|cut -d: -f5`

Thats all folks!


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