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Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:18:26 +0100
Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME
From: "John Morrison" <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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On Mon, May 31, 2010 1:22 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote:
>> 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.
>
> USERNAME is the Windows username.  LOGNAME should be rather equivalent
> to $USER.

If that's true, then we can't do a simple LOGNAME=$USER...

$ echo -e "USERNAME = $USERNAME\nUSER     = $USER\nLOGNAME  = `logname`"
USERNAME = John
USER     = john
LOGNAME  = John

Note the case...

J.


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