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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get username in script Post 302106770 by willc0de4food on Monday 12th of February 2007 02:42:33 PM
Old 02-12-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmedwaseem2000
try this

export user=`eval whoami`
or export user=$(whoami)
echo $user
assuming one of these methods works, would that then allow me to execute a command such as..
mount_afp afp://$user@dc.fqdns.edu/$user /Users/$user/Desktop/Home
?

thanks :]



/* edit */ the second method worked, export user=$(whoami)
when i try: mount_afp afp://$user@dc.fqdns.edu/$user /Users/$user/Desktop/Home
i get this error:
Quote:
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -50, errno is -50
=\ google doesn't help much.
Last edited by willc0de4food; 02-12-2007 at 04:40 PM..
 

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whoami

WHOAMI(1)							   User Commands							 WHOAMI(1)

NAME

       whoami - print effective userid

SYNOPSIS

       whoami [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID.  Same as id -un.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This   is   free   software.    You   may   redistribute   copies   of	it   under   the   terms   of	the  GNU  General  Public  License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.	There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your  site,
       the command

	      info whoami

       should give you access to the complete manual.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+--------------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE	 |
       +--------------------+--------------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgnu-coreutils  |
       +--------------------+--------------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted	 |
       +--------------------+--------------------+
NOTES

       Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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