Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Finding the user name via the shell Keywords: shell variables Message-ID: <409@marob.MASA.COM> Date: 2 Dec 88 13:33:33 GMT References: <6323@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) Organization: ESCC New York City Lines: 10 In article <6323@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... Try `logname' (RTFM: logname(C)). -- Dave Hammond ...!uunet!masa.com!{marob,dsix2}!daveh