On Mar 5, Balint, Jess said: >Hello all. I am working on a script ON UNIX! that needs the current >username. Is there any environment variable that has this? Or am I doomed to >parsing `who am i`? TIA.
Well, you have $ENV{USER} and getpwuid($<). -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]