Limit the 'loggedInUserFirstname' variable to 25 characters and capitalize its first letter

[mani2care]

Hi Dan,

Greetings for the better visibility and standardising the login user first letter to making it capitalising

from : https://github.com/dan-snelson/Setup-Your-Mac/blob/5c0c95887aa7cb82c7c20010b312710341395a9d/Setup-Your-Mac-via-Dialog.bash#L216

to :
loggedInUserFullname=$( id -F "${loggedInUser}" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)sub(/./,toupper(substr($i,1,1)), $i)}1')

Find the attached out put before :

Find the out put after :

[dan-snelson]

Thanks for the ongoing testing and FRs, @mani2care.

While this strikes me as a "garbage in, garbage out" situation — if users are too lazy to capitalize their own names, why should we reward their bad behavior — please test the following:

loggedInUserFirstname=$( echo "$loggedInUserFullname" | sed -E 's/^.*, // ; s/([^ ]*).*/\1/' | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))substr($0,2)}' )

[mani2care]

hi Dan,

Tested with this loggedInUserFirstname its works well.
loggedInUserFirstname=$( echo "$loggedInUserFullname" | sed -E 's/^.*, // ; s/([^ ]*).*/\1/' | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))substr($0,2)}' )

However, if the account name is very long then 15, its another scenario. for example
Raju Manikandanrajusubbaramanigoundar
Alexandros Constantinou
Anastasia Papadopoulos
Christophoros Georgiou
Demetrios Anastasiades
Eleni Ioannou-Kyprianou
Georgios Michalopoulos
Katerina Tzortzis-Papadakis
Konstantinos Papageorgiou
Margarita Kyprianou-Christodoulou
Panayiotis Papageorgopoulos

can be possible like this if the name is very longer just to limiting the letters 10

loggedInUserFullname=$( id -F "${loggedInUser}" )
loggedInUserFirstname=$( echo "$loggedInUserFullname" | sed -E 's/^.*, // ; s/([^ ]*).*/\1/' | cut -c 1-10 | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))substr($0,2)}' )
if [ ${#loggedInUserFullname} -gt 11 ]; then
  loggedInUserFirstname="${loggedInUserFirstname}..."
fi

Manikandan...... so this will be limited printing the letters after if any words will be printed like ......
so this will help us to reducing the over size the table.

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[dan-snelson]

@mani2care:

Thanks for the additional details and example strings.

Please test the following:

loggedInUserFirstname=$( echo "$loggedInUserFullname" | sed -E 's/^.*, // ; s/([^ ]*).*/\1/' | sed 's/\(.\{15\}\).*/\1.../' | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))substr($0,2)}' )

❯ loggedInUserFullname="raju, manikandanrajusubbaramanigoundar"
❯ loggedInUserFirstname=$( echo "$loggedInUserFullname" | sed -E 's/^.*, // ; s/([^ ]*).*/\1/' | sed 's/\(.\{15\}\).*/\1.../' | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))substr($0,2)}' )
❯ echo $loggedInUserFirstname
Manikandanrajus...

[dan-snelson]

@mani2care: The example above is for the first 15 characters; please advise if you'd prefer the first 10 characters (as in your example).

[mani2care]

I think this is looks good shot and sweet ,& prefer the first 10 characters

#!/bin/bash
loggedInUser=$( echo "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | scutil | awk '/Name :/ { print $3 }' )
loggedInUserFullname=$( id -F "${loggedInUser}" )
loggedInUserFirstname=$( echo "$loggedInUserFullname" | sed -E 's/^.*, // ; s/([^ ]*).*/\1/' | sed 's/\(.\{15\}\).*/\1.../' | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))substr($0,2)}' )
echo loggedInUserFullname : $loggedInUserFullname
echo loggedInUserFirstname: $loggedInUserFirstname

Find the test results:

[dan-snelson]

@mani2care: This should be addressed in 1.10.0-rc1.

[dan-snelson]

@mani2care: Please test-drive 1.10.0-rc2.

As mentioned in the #setup-your-mac Channel on the Mac Admins Slack:

Long-term, I feel that if upgrading to the latest version of SYM is well-documented, Mac Admins can roll-their-own customizations now and easily maintain them across versions, without adversely impacting the entire user-base.

[dan-snelson]

(You can uncomment Line No. 216 during testing.)

[mani2care]

Hi @dan-snelson find the attached the test results.

longname.test.mov

shortname.test.mov

[mani2care]

One more request change the headline to Center align so it’s looks good

[dan-snelson]

@mani2care: This one comes down to personal preference; I think the left-aligned header looks good.

[dan-snelson]

Thanks, @mani2care!