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Trying to make a script to set a value in a .plist file which is based on the user's login name. basically trying to set a value to [email protected]. So far I've got this:

#!/bin/bash
THEUSER=`osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get full name of (current user)'`
FIRST=`echo $THEUSER | awk '{ print $1; }'`
LAST=`echo $THEUSER | awk '{ print $2; }'`
defaults write com.microsoft.Communicator UserSIPID "[email protected]"

The script work fine and all however the problem is that our user account are "last, first" and the script reads the ',' attached to the last name so I end up with "first.last,@domain.com".

Is there a simply way to stop this comma from being read so that the out put to the .plist file is simply [email protected]?

TIA.

Well, I didn't really understand what you were doing, but replacing:



by:



should do what you want.

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Some samples could help to make it bash(1) only.

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EDIT :

Never mind, I think I got it.



If you want it all lowercase:

Thanks for the reply tried the script and they didn't work but I did some googling on the commands and realise that they are for linux it looks like. I neglected to mention in my original post that this is in OS X environment.

I found an equivalent of getent(1) for OS X called dscl. You might be interested in it.

Also, since I don't have any Mac ( and I don't want one ;-) ), if you could give me a sample output of the command:



I would consider rewriting the code with a proper parsing.