Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!sgi!jmb@patton.sgi.com From: jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: Re: euser - display the effective user name, SysV-ish Summary: Why re-invent the wheel? Message-ID: <37612@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 8 Jul 89 16:20:24 GMT References: <14448@bfmny0.UUCP> Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 11 Why waste time with this? The system V 'id' command does the same thing! And, it's standard! -- Jim Barton Silicon Graphics Computer Systems "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!" jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused." - Elvis Costello, 'Red Shoes' --