Retrieving unique user numbers

[Cliff Stanford]

In article <1991Apr25.153217.9572 at oakhill.sps.mot.com> root at oakhill.sps.mot.com (Operator) writes:
>I was asked by a user how to retrieve/identify the unique
>user number from within the shell environment (ksh). What
>he is looking for would, preferably, function in much the
>same fashion as the command [echo `/usr/bin/logname`], where
>the result of this op could then be piped into a subsequent
>operation. 

	echo `grep \^\`/usr/bin/logname\` /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3`

	Isn't shell quoting wonderful?	:-)
		Cliff
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