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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.


Yaakov

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