Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!netcom!hinton
From: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk and shell question
Summary: use cut(1) instead
Keywords: awk sh
Message-ID: <2412@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 89 18:17:13 GMT
References: <1163@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Organization: NetCom Public Access Unix -- San Jose, CA
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In article <1163@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
> [ . . . . ]
>I have to get the user id, and then get the user description from /etc/passwd.
> [ . . . . ]

How about this:
grep \^`who am i | cut -d' ' -f1`\: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f5

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Greg Hinton
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