From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T14:34:43+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I find the name of the current user?


Sam Roberts wrote:
> Quoting csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at
11:54:43AM +0900:
> > On 2005-04-03, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> > > 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
>
> 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