How do I find the name of the current user?

ruby-talk
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It's not defined on my Windows XP Pro box (though, see USERPROFILE).

Also see ruby-talk:37643 for a Win32API wrapper around GetUserName().

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Mills [mailto:cmills@freeshell.org]
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:35 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: how do I find the name of the current user?

Sam Roberts wrote:
> Quoting csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at
11:54:43AM +0900:
> > On 2005-04-03, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> > > I'm thinking Etc.getlogin followed by
Etc.getpwnam.gecos might be
best
> > > on unix, is there a windowsy equivalent?
> >
> > Would this help you?
> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/135205
>
> It looks great, but I don't want to use it until its in the stdlib.
Its
> a little more than I want to get the name of the current user.
>
> But, I'll remember, I might need it in the future.
>

I don't know how portable this is, but:

irb(main):001:0> ENV["USER"]
=> "cmills"

-Charlie

2

In unix: whoami or who am i or echo $LOGNAME works. who am i shows you
the userid originally logged in. whoami shows you the current, if you
su -.

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On Apr 4, 2005 12:55 PM, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Mills [mailto:cmills@freeshell.org]
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:35 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: how do I find the name of the current user?
>
>
>
> Sam Roberts wrote:
> > Quoting csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at
> 11:54:43AM +0900:
> > > On 2005-04-03, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm thinking Etc.getlogin followed by
> Etc.getpwnam.gecos might be
> best
> > > > on unix, is there a windowsy equivalent?
> > >
> > > Would this help you?
> > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/135205
> >
> > It looks great, but I don't want to use it until its in the stdlib.
> Its
> > a little more than I want to get the name of the current user.
> >
> > But, I'll remember, I might need it in the future.
> >
>
> I don't know how portable this is, but:
>
> irb(main):001:0> ENV["USER"]
> => "cmills"
>
> -Charlie

It's not defined on my Windows XP Pro box (though, see USERPROFILE).

Also see ruby-talk:37643 for a Win32API wrapper around GetUserName().

Regards,

Dan