whoami?

[Ed Hew]

In article <18865 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>
>if ( `id | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*$/\1/'` == "root" ) then
>	set prompt = "#"
>else
>	set prompt = "%"
>endif
>-- 
>John F. Haugh II                             UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
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Unless I'm missing something, why not simply

if ( `logname` == "root" ) then

	....and so on?
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