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hysterical raisins?

dat
– dat

2016-04-10 05:18:47 +00:00
Commented Apr 10, 2016 at 5:18
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Didn't work for me. But this did: getent passwd | grep "$USER" | cut -d":" -f5 | cut -d"," -f1

Dean Rather
– Dean Rather

2016-05-24 00:48:10 +00:00
Commented May 24, 2016 at 0:48
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Use grep "^$USER:" or getent passwd $USER to not match all usernames containing the name of the current user

nvrandow
– nvrandow

2016-07-22 16:13:17 +00:00
Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 16:13
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Great answer. Here's another one-liner based on your answer that's suitable to insert somewhere in eg. /etc/profile.d export FULL_USER_NAME="$(getent passwd $USER | cut -d ':' -f 5 | cut -d ',' -f 1)"

Neil Stephens
– Neil Stephens

2023-06-20 01:39:15 +00:00
Commented Jun 20, 2023 at 1:39

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