As a first trial within ruby, i’d like to make a verys simple
installer/uninstaller (on MacOS X).
For that purpose, i need to get the user login name in order to build a
path.
from command line i get that name by :
% users
yvonthor
how could i get the same within ruby ???
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Yvon
not sure if this woeks on MacOSX, but I think it should:
On my box:
require ‘etc’
Etc.getlogin #=> “gabriele”
BTW you could always do
username=users
to use the OS command
il Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:37:14 +0200, yvon.thoravallist@-SUPPRIMEZ-free.fr.invalid (Yvon Thoraval) ha scritto::
As a first trial within ruby, i’d like to make a verys simple
installer/uninstaller (on MacOS X).For that purpose, i need to get the user login name in order to build a
path.from command line i get that name by :
% usersyvonthor
how could i get the same within ruby ???
On my box:
require ‘etc’
Etc.getlogin #=> “gabriele”
tanxs a lot, this one works fine 
BTW you could always do
username=users
to use the OS command
giving :
irb(main):001:0> username=users
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):1: parse error
username=
^
from (irb):1
probably the wasn't correct ? i had to type in followed by a space to get it ?
anyway, one solution is enough to me…