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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
Message-ID: <18865@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 27 Dec 90 15:33:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <6537@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>What I want is something similiar to the BSD/SunOS whoami.  For example, in a
>.cshrc file, I want to be able to do this:
>
>if (`whoami` == "root") then
> set prompt = "#"
>else
> set prompt = "%"
>endif
>
>Something like that.  Somebody gave me a code fragment in e-mail that does
>return what I want, but shell scripts bomb.  Any idea why?

Try something like this -

% id | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*$/\1/'
jfh

which would give you -

if ( `id | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*$/\1/'` == "root" ) then
	set prompt = "#"
else
	set prompt = "%"
endif
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