Finding the user name via the shell

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

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...

There is a logname command which has been around since 2.1.2 at least. I
believe the name is read from wtmp or some such.
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