29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
6:19 p.m.
On 29/11/2007, Kai Janson kaijanson@thejeeper.net wrote:
Yes, I am running Leopard 10.5.1 and there is actually a white space in front of the name.
Wow, that's awful. Thanks. Why is it that Apple are so dreadful at making command-line tools that work in a sensible way?
If we need to do this (and Peter's comment is making me wonder whether or not we do), then at least
perl -le 'print +(getpwuid $<)[6]'
is portable and concise (and not likely to break when Apple change their bizarre tool in yet another incompatible way).
Robin