use id and awk ie to get just user name
USERNAM=`id | awk -F"(" '{print $2}' | awk -F")" '{print $1}'` # Messy but
works everywhere
-----Original Message-----
From: Rus Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 16 August 2002 09:20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: ascertain current username
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> does anybody know a possibility how to ascertain the current User (User
Id,
> Username) ?
> I thougt of using a module but couldn't find one.
Have you tired parsing the output from the commands "id -h" and "id -u"?
Rgds
Rus
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