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From: cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Retrieving unique user numbers
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.212948.14327@demon.co.uk>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:29:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.153217.9572@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Distribution: comp.unix.shell
Organization: Demon Systems Limited
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In article <1991Apr25.153217.9572@oakhill.sps.mot.com> 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. 

	echo `grep \^\`/usr/bin/logname\` /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3`

	Isn't shell quoting wonderful?	:-)
		Cliff
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