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From: wht@tridom.uucp (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: euser - display the effective user name, SysV-ish
Keywords: BSD whoami SYSV id
Message-ID: <140@tridom.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 89 15:43:31 GMT
References: <14448@bfmny0.UUCP> <37612@sgi.SGI.COM>
Organization: Tridom Corporation, Marietta GA
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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!
> 

whoami is standard on BSD, too, and prints exactly what
the other gentleman and I wanted to know without all that sed
gibberish.

But why am I responding to someone who wastes 1000s of alt.sources
readers time with his opinion of waste :-) ?

Jeez people:
  1) while(1) { puts("post only sources to alt.sources); }
  2) be a little tolerant

>   "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused."
> --

:-)
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Warren Tucker, Tridom Corporation       ...!gatech!emory!tridom!wht 
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