Finding the user name via the shell

[Tim Evans]

In article <249 at tfli.UUCP>, mikej at tfli.UUCP (Michael R.  Johnston) writes:
> In article <6323 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mdella at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) writes:
> >... how to determine the users login name
> 
> The correct answer is to use the variable $LOGNAME.

Although the $LOGNAME variable is supported generally on System V *NIX, SCO
Xenix 2.2 does _not_ support it.  Rather, as I and others have noted here
previously, the Xenix _command_ 'logname' (note lowercase) returns the 
user's login name.

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