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From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
Summary: logname?
Keywords: whoami, id, logname
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.080938.21103@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 30 Dec 90 08:09:38 GMT
References: <6537@crash.cts.com> <18865@rpp386.cactus.org>
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Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, CANADA
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In article <18865@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>
>if ( `id | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*$/\1/'` == "root" ) then
>	set prompt = "#"
>else
>	set prompt = "%"
>endif
>-- 
>John F. Haugh II                             UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
>Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832                           Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org

Unless I'm missing something, why not simply

if ( `logname` == "root" ) then

	....and so on?
--
  Ed. A. Hew  <edhew@xenitec.on.ca>,  XeniTec Consulting Services
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