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LOGNAME(1)							   User Commands							LOGNAME(1)

NAME
logname - print user's login name SYNOPSIS
logname [OPTION] DESCRIPTION
Print the name of the current user. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by FIXME: unknown. REPORTING BUGS
Report logname bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report logname translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for logname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and logname programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'logname invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 LOGNAME(1)

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NAME
unlink - call the unlink function to remove the specified file SYNOPSIS
unlink FILE unlink OPTION DESCRIPTION
Call the unlink function to remove the specified FILE. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Michael Stone. REPORTING BUGS
Report unlink bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report unlink translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
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