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Re: base-files: LOGNAME
On Mon, May 31, 2010 1:22 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote:
>> On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote:
>> >Could we do;
>> >
>> >LOGNAME=$USERNAME
>> >export LOGNAME
>> >
>> >instead?
>>
>> I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX.
>
> USERNAME is the Windows username. LOGNAME should be rather equivalent
> to $USER.
If that's true, then we can't do a simple LOGNAME=$USER...
$ echo -e "USERNAME = $USERNAME\nUSER = $USER\nLOGNAME = `logname`"
USERNAME = John
USER = john
LOGNAME = John
Note the case...
J.
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