On Mon, May 31, 2010 1:22 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote: >> On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote: >> >Could we do; >> > >> >LOGNAME=$USERNAME >> >export LOGNAME >> > >> >instead? >> >> I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX. > > USERNAME is the Windows username. LOGNAME should be rather equivalent > to $USER.
If that's true, then we can't do a simple LOGNAME=$USER... $ echo -e "USERNAME = $USERNAME\nUSER = $USER\nLOGNAME = `logname`" USERNAME = John USER = john LOGNAME = John Note the case... J. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
