Silly question: How to obtain UID w/in C shell? 1

[goldenradium2001]

Hi there,

I did this to try to obtain the current UID from bash:

# echo $UID

How do I obtain the current UID from the C shell? It reads that it cannot recognize the variable. I tried to echo $uid as well. I echoed $USER but I got the user's name not the UID. I want to use the UID.

I executed the id command but I got the UID and a bunch of other stuff.

Help? I just want the UID. Thanks.

 

[jamisar]

id |sed -e 's/).*//' -e 's/.*(//' -----------
when they don't ask you anymore, where they are come from, and they don't tell you anymore, where they go ... you'r getting older !

 

[olded]

Hi:

One of these 4 should work:

1)
id|sed -e 's,^[^(]*(,,' -e 's,).*$,,' -e 1q

2)
id|sed 's/^uid=[0-9]*(\(.*\)) gid.*/\1/'

3)
who am i | cut -d" " -f1

4)
id|awk ' {
start=index($0, "(&quot
endit=index($0, &quot&quot
print substr($0, start+1, endit-start-1)
} '

 

[vdsouza]

try out id -u

 

[goldenradium2001]

Hi all, actually I was aiming to get the numerical UID. I modified jamisar's sed syntax to get it. Here's what I used:

id | sed -e '/(.*//' -e 's/uid=//'

This got me the numerical UID.

Thanks for everyone's help!