Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: euser - display the effective user name, SysV-ish
Message-ID: <14452@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 89 23:10:31 GMT
References: <14448@bfmny0.UUCP> <37612@sgi.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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In article <37612@sgi.SGI.COM> jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
>Why waste time with this?  The system V 'id' command does the
>same thing!  And, it's standard!

I wrote my little hack for situations where you need your effective
logname FAST.  It's not a complicated program.  Sys V's ID(1) is nice
but requires sed on the back end to strip out just the name, and that
slows things down.
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