Derek R. Price writes:
>
> No it isn't. It just errors out if it can't find an id it thinks is GNU.
Well, the fact that it didn't detect the problem and report it in a
sensible way but just went blithely on until it fell over and died is
fixed.
> Anyone know why the above sed command wouldn't be portable? And the
> associated one:
>
> username=`id | sed 's/^uid=[0-9]*(\([^)]*\)).*$/\1/'`
If I were going to do it, I'd use expr rather than sed, but that's
irrelevant because SUS2 says that the "uid" string is locale-specific,
so you can't depend on it. Only ancient versions of id don't support -u
and -n -- I don't know why Sun insists on making their antique tools the
default when they supply a perfect good set of standards-conforming ones
in /usr/xpg4/bin. Anyone trying to run the test suite on Sun would be
well advised to put /usr/xpg4/bin at the front of their path first.
-Larry Jones
What's the matter? Don't you trust your own kid?! -- Calvin
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