Re: [bugs #10533] Change from "whoami" to "id -u" breaks "updatedb" on Solaris

[James Youngman]

In 2003, this problem was fixed in CVS.  The fix is :-

getuid() {
    # format of "id" output is ...
    # uid=1(daemon) gid=1(other)
    # for `id's that don't understand -u
    id | cut -d'(' -f 1 | cut -d'=' -f2
}