[ale] UID variable in csh?

[John Wells]

Joe,

This is on Solaris. Sorry about neglecting the OT convention ;-).

John

Joe Steele said:
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, John Wells wrote:
>
>> It would be that simple, but it's an NIS managed box and I don't want
>> to simply cat the yp/passwd file as it's location is likely to change.
>>
>> The perl seems to work fine, though, as does your C solution.  I was
>> just hoping there was a csh var available, as I'm not guaranteed perl
>> will be installed on destination boxes and packaging a c executable
>> involved a tad bit more overhead.
>>
>
> Isn't it the case that csh is just a symbolic link to tcsh on most linux
> systems?
>
> In tcsh, you have the $uid variable available.
>
> --Joe




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