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Re: How to find current user?

Subject: Re: How to find current user?
From: Kent Behrends <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:01:19 -0700


On Oct 28, 2004, at 17:14, Roger Howard wrote:

On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Bernardo Hoehl wrote:
Is this what you want?
set CurrentUser to do shell script "whoami"
set ThePath to "/Users/" & CurrentUser & "/Library/Preferences/"
I would caution against this approach, especially for a lab scenario, as not all $HOME directories are located there, especially if it's a remote home directory (but even certain local accounts - root's $HOME is elsewhere). It will work on a stock OSX, but it won't handle many other scenarios.


Then maybe:

set ThePath to (do shell script "printenv HOME") & "/Library/Preferences/"

--- Kent Behrends BEHR Consulting International http://www.bci.com GPG Public key: http://www.BEHRconsulting.com/gpg/kent-behrends-gpg-pub-key.txt

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  >Re: How to find current user? (From: Bernardo Hoehl <email@hidden>)
  >Re: How to find current user? (From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>)




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