how do I find the name of the current user?

[Sam Roberts]

I'm thinking Etc.getlogin followed by Etc.getpwnam.gecos might be best
on unix, is there a windowsy equivalent?

Thanks,
Sam

 

[Csaba Henk]

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

Csaba

 

[Sam Roberts]

Quoting csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:54:43AM +0900:

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.

Thanks
Sam

 

[Alan Chen]

On Win XP and 2000 I think you can depend on ENV['USERNAME'], on older
windows versions I'm not sure...

- alan

 

[Charles Mills]

Quoting csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:54:43AM +0900:

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