Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Smith
, at 06:07, Scott Morrow wrote: I'm trying to get the user's name under OSX. I can get the environment variable $USER but this only returns the user's short name. Any ideas for getting the full name? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-20 Thread Scott Morrow
RealName: Gordon Tillman (that's me!) --gordy On Dec 19, 2008, at 06:07, Scott Morrow wrote: I'm trying to get the user's name under OSX. I can get the environment variable $USER but this only returns the user's short name. Any ideas for getting the full name

the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Morrow
I'm trying to get the user's name under OSX. I can get the environment variable $USER but this only returns the user's short name. Any ideas for getting the full name? Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email

Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
name under OSX. I can get the environment variable $USER but this only returns the user's short name. Any ideas for getting the full name? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Morrow
is used to interact with that. For example: $ dscl . -read /Users/gordy RealName RealName: Gordon Tillman (that's me!) --gordy On Dec 19, 2008, at 06:07, Scott Morrow wrote: I'm trying to get the user's name under OSX. I can get the environment variable $USER but this only returns