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Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr wrote:
>OK but do you know how to get the username because in the cygwin terminal
>echo $USER or echo $USERNAME works
>but i 'm using a file install.bat which calls 'bash.exe instal.sh'
>and in install.sh:
>
>echo $USER....nothing
>echo $USERNAME....nothing
>
>any suggestions???
1) calm down.
2) "id -un" provides the login name. You could do something like:
USER="`id -un`"
in your script
cgf
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