12-16-2008
Hi ,
Thankyou...
The error was coming because of #!/bin/sh in the beginning of the script.
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#!/bin/sh
whoami_code=$(grep `whoami` /etc/passwd | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d ":" -f3)
echo $whoami_code
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When i removed that part it worked... is there any particular reason for that??
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