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From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Retrieving unique user numbers
Message-ID: <220@bria.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 91 04:00:52 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.153217.9572@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike
Distribution: comp.unix.shell
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, root@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Operator) writes:
|I was asked by a user how to retrieve/identify the unique
|user number from within the shell environment (ksh). What
|he is looking for would, preferably, function in much the
|same fashion as the command [echo `/usr/bin/logname`], where
|the result of this op could then be piped into a subsequent
|operation. 

How about ...

myuid() {
	expr "`id`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\).*'
	}

echo "My uid is `myuid`"
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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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