In article <1163 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: > [ . . . . ] >I have to get the user id, and then get the user description from /etc/passwd. > [ . . . . ] How about this: grep \^`who am i | cut -d' ' -f1`\: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f5 -- Greg Hinton DOMAIN: hinton at netcom.uucp UUCP: uunet!apple!netcom!hinton