awk and shell question

[Greg Hinton]

In article <1163 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
> [ . . . . ]
>I have to get the user id, and then get the user description from /etc/passwd.
> [ . . . . ]

How about this:
grep \^`who am i | cut -d' ' -f1`\: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f5

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Greg Hinton
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