Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Finding the user name via the shell Keywords: shell variables Message-ID: <12719@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 21:50:21 GMT References: <6323@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 11 In article <6323@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mdella@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. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me