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From: felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Finding the user name via the shell
Keywords: shell variables
Message-ID: <1794@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 12:00:48 GMT
References: <6323@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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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...

how about:

set name=`who am i | cut -f1 -d" "`

so long,
			felix