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Re: User Name in OS X +
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Re: User Name in OS X +


  • Subject: Re: User Name in OS X +
  • From: Duncan Cowan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:22:47 +1000

The gulf appears to be widening - and I hadn't even reached the edge . . .
Thanks for all responses. They worked perfectly
(How? Don't even think of asking me)
I might have to have a look at this shell scripting thing . . .

Cheers

D

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 06:56 PM, bill fancher wrote:


On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 11:53 PM, Philip Aker wrote:


This works for me:

on FullUserName()
set res to (do shell script ("finger " & (system attribute "USER")))
set full_name to (words 4 thru -1 of paragraph 1 of res)
set {tid, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, space}
set {full_name, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {full_name as string, tid}
full_name
end FullUserName

The NetInfo tool, niutil, is handy here:

on fullUserName()
do shell script "niutil -readprop . /users/`whoami` realname"
end fullUserName

-bill

FullUserName()

HTH,

Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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