Finding the user name via the shell

[Tim Evans]

In article <1794 at netmbx.UUCP>, felix at netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens) writes:
> 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
> 
> how about:
> 
> set name=`who am i | cut -f1 -d" "`

This may not work on SCO Xenix either, unless you have the "text" package.
The 'cut' (and companion 'paste') utilities are not part of the SCO
"runtime" package.  (Public domain versions are available around the net,
and they run on my SCO Xenix 386, Version 2.2.3).  You can use 'awk' to
massage the output of 'who am i'.

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