Finding the user name via the shell

Dave Hammond daveh at marob.MASA.COM
Fri Dec 2 23:33:33 AEST 1988


In article <6323 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 `logname'  (RTFM: logname(C)).

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