Finding the user name via the shell

[Tim Evans]

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.

Use the Xenix 'logname' command.  To use it in shell scripting, see the
following example:

	#get long listing of $HOME directory and mail to me
	ls -l $HOME | mail `logname`

Other System V *NIX's support the environmental variable $LOGNAME, but Xenix
don't!

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