n string on the standard output and waits for the user to type yes or no in the standard input. Returns true if the user has typed yes, false if the user has typed no.
... n the person's full name? Many a time I have seen users locking up a process, but their user ID means nothing to me, so I have to grep the pas... he nice part where I can ring them up to give the user a telling off.
Here's a function that can save you from grep ing the /etc/passwd file to see the user's full name.
On my system the user's full name is
