system

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright (C) 2015 Benjamin Abendroth
# 
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# 
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################################################################################
# System functions #############################################################
################################################################################

user_information () {
  local IFS=:
  local _USER="${1:?$FUNCNAME: Missing argument}"

  read USER_LOGNAME USER_X USER_UID USER_GUID USER_REALNAME USER_HOME USER_SHELL \
<<< "$( getent passwd $_USER | sed 's/,.*//' )"
}

get_hostname () {
  cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
}