> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > We currently have:
> > EffectiveUser=`id -n -u 2>/dev/null` || EffectiveUser=`whoami 2>/dev/null`
>
> OK, but is that really portable? I'd feel more comfortable with
>
> EffectiveUser=`id -n -u 2>/dev/null || whoami 2>/dev/null`
>
> because it's clearer what will happen. I wouldn't have expected an
> error inside a backquoted subcommand to determine the error result of
> the command as a whole, which is what the first example is depending on.
> In a quick test it seemed to work with the ksh I tried it on, but I
> wonder how many shells work that way...
Change applied.
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