Finding the user name via the shell

[Phil Eschallier]

In article <6323 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, mdella at 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 this:

	NAME=`logname`
	echo $NAME