-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I noticed something lately, like this morning where the numeric user-id ($UID) doesn't work inside of scripts anymore. Has anyone else noticed this? I'm running Debian Squeeze so I have the latest package of espeak and so on. I first noticed the problem in both talkwith and speakupconf shell scripts. If I echo $UID from a live shell, I hear the numeric value as I would expect. my normal account is 1000 and when I echo it from root I hear 0. But when I execute this command in a shell script, the $UID field always comes up as an empty string or null so the fore mentioned shell scripts error out. Hear's a sample test script to try this on. #!/bin/sh # Test user id values echo Numeric user-id = $UID echo Character user-id = $USER When I run this script, the second echo command works beautifully but the first one puts out the string but the value of $UID is apparently empty because it is omitted. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkmrCvcACgkQWSjv55S0LfFqIQCeJaozeNd/Le2sCx+1rt8ySvCp fbsAn24t0OIPonCOo9lS1GF4EzH+VC+k =5Xlv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
