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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
Message-ID: <2749@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 00:01:26 GMT
References: <6537@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <6537@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

| 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?

  Because it sets the prompt for the shell running the script and all
commands run by it, but not in the environment of the interractive
shell. You need to run the shell script with '.' or put it in the .profile.
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