Get Current User 2

[Michael42]

Hello,

On a Solaris 8 and 10 systems in a Bourne shell script I need to set the current user to a variable. My problem is I cannot use an environment variable like LOGNAME or USER.

I think maybe I could use id command if I can just extract the username and set it to a variable.

What can you suggest?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[SamBones]

Something like this?

USERID=`id|sed 's/).*$//g;s/^.*(//g'`

 

[Michael42]

SamBones,

Thanks very much sir - that was perfect.

-Michael42

 

[SamBones]

I guess you could also...

USERID=`/usr/ucb/whoami`

This is a little easier to understand and does the same thing.

 

[olded]

There's always more than one way of doing something:

user=$(id | cut -d\( -f2 | cut -d\) -f1)

 

[Michael42]

Thanks all for the suggestions!

Michael42

 

[TonyGroves]

With GNU id, you could do:[tt]
USERNAME=`id -un`
[/tt]

 

[PHV]

No logname command in solaris ?
username=`logname`

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SamBones]

Yes, Solaris does have logname. Sometimes we miss the obvious!