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Hello all, Got another question... I have an entry in my .bashrc like this... echo -ne "${BLUE}""Howdy. Today is, "; date I know I can do this... echo -ne "${BLUE}""Howdy, ...
  1. 03-12-2008 #1
    AboveNBeyond
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    Greeting script...

    Hello all,
    Got another question...

    I have an entry in my .bashrc like this...
    echo -ne "${BLUE}""Howdy. Today is, "; date
    I know I can do this...
    echo -ne "${BLUE}""Howdy, $USER Today is, "; date
    My question is this, how can I have the "real name" displayed...

    So the message would say...
    Howdy Kevin, Today is... etc, rather then Howdy "username"

    Is it possible?
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    Just replace $USER with actual name.
    Code:
    echo -ne "${BLUE}""Howdy, Kevin Today is, "; date
    You can write anything you want.
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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    Hi.

    The fifth field in file /etc/passwd contains the "full name" (or a comment) for each user login name. See the man pages for passwd in sections 1 and 5.

    You can extract the field with utilities, for example grep and cut ... cheers, drl
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  4. 03-12-2008 #4
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    Devils_casper, you are correct, but I want this .bashrc entry to be on the /etc/bashrc for all users. So I would like it to be their name, not mine.

    drl, I will look into it, thanks.
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