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From: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: determining port id
Message-ID: <585@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 18:20:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.171708.18628@wciu.EDU>
Reply-To: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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In article <1991Mar19.171708.18628@wciu.EDU> george@wciu.wciu.edu (George Peavy) writes:
>
>What I have so far:  I'm using Bourne shell on AT&T Sys V 3.0 running on a 
>Unisys 6000/51 platform.  I can get the port id with,
>
>	who am i | awk '{ print $2 }'
>

This is how I do it...

device=`tty`
port=`basename $device`
echo $port


The "`" are accent marks, not single quotes.  I'm on AT&T SysV 3.2.3.
This is also more accurate than using 'who am i' when using 'layers'.