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Hi Jeremy, Following command will give the username in windows and unix/linux getlogin() eg: my $username = getlogin(); print $username;
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Re^2: How do you grab username/login id in Unix?
by jeremyw (Novice) on Dec 02, 2004 at 17:46 UTC
    Thanks for everyone's help. It turned out for my case that the following worked the best for my application. 
    my $username = getlogin();
print $username;

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    Thanks, Jeremy

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