How to show full name on panel?

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I’m new with Ubuntu. When i run this command on terminal:
$getent passwd $user|cut -d ':' -f 5|cut -d ',' -f 1
It return my account full name perfectly. But I can’t do that same thing with command applets to show my full name on panel.
Please tell me, is there any way else to show my full name on panel?

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Hi
Write your command into a file named for example name.sh:

#! /bin/bash
getent passwd $user | cut -d ':' -f 5 | cut -d ',' -f 1

Store this file in your home folder in a subfolder named "bin", then make it executable using:

chmod +x ~/bin/name.sh

Then as the command when setting up the applet, use the full path to this file:

/home/you/bin/name.sh

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Thank you. It works like a charm.