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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Retrieving unique user numbers
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Date: 27 Apr 91 17:02:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.153217.9572@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <3483@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
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In article <3483@wn1.sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
>In <1991Apr25.153217.9572@oakhill.sps.mot.com> root@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Operator) writes:
>
>>Hello all --
>
>>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. 
>
>On this system (running SunOS 4.1.1)
>
>id | sed 's/[^=]*=//;s/(.*//'

Ik ik ik. This looks cooler:

% perl -e 'print $<;'

And it works on more systems than just SunOS 4.1.1.

		-Kartik
--
internet# rm `df | tail +2 | awk '{ printf "%s/quotas\n",$6}'`

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