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From: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: euser - display the effective user name, SysV-ish
Message-ID: <1540@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 14:41:53 GMT
References: <14448@bfmny0.UUCP> <37612@sgi.SGI.COM> <14452@bfmny0.UUCP>
Reply-To: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab
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In article <14452@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
# 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.

Sed is not required.  Try using expr(1)!

			-Jim
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