Re: User Name in OS X
Re: User Name in OS X
- Subject: Re: User Name in OS X
- From: bill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:46:08 +0800
>
> finger `logname` | grep "Login:" | awk -F: '{print $3}'
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Just out of interest, since I'm unfamiliar with this one. Are those grave
>
accents around 'logname', like this `logname`, or has the mailing list
>
server changed them from something else?
Paul,
They're grave accents (ASCII character 96). The usage is to pass the
standard output of command in between grave accents to the preceding
command.
bill
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