Finding the user name via the shell

[Dave Hammond]

In article <481 at fallst.UUCP> tkevans at fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
>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!

If you place the line:

LOGNAME=`logname`; export LOGNAME

in /etc/profile, then Xenix supports the LOGNAME variable.  This works
for the Bourne and Korn shells.  I'm not a csh'er but I suspect there's
a similar systemwide login commands file.

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Dave Hammond
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