the user's name under OSX

[Mark Smith]

Scott - I didn't know about dscl either, but it seems to work here on  
10.4.11 as well.

Best,

Mark

On 19 Dec 2008, at 22:01, Scott Morrow wrote:

> Hello Gordy,
> Thanks for that. I was (am!) ignorant of dscl
> I'll continue looking for something (additional) that might work in  
> earlier versions.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:14 AM, Gordon Tillman wrote:
>
>> Scott in 10.5 that information is stored in Directory Services.   
>> The dscl command 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 the user's short name.  Any ideas for  
>>> getting the full name?
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