Re: `whoami`? I think I know, my house is in the meadows though...
From: Moshe Jacobson (bramoshe_at_runslinux.net)
Date: 05/17/05
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Date: 16 May 2005 18:35:06 -0400
DaLoverhino <DaLoveRhino@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a script that needs to get the username. It's not for security
> purposes, but it is used for a simple sanity check.
> This script needs to work on all flavors of unix and unix shells. I
> want to use whoami, but I am worried that it may not be found on all
> flavors of unix+shells? Is this true? If whoami is not universally
> present in all unix flavors, what command would be?
If your script is in bash, you can use the bash variable $USER.
Moshe
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