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Originally Posted by sriki32

I need a script which checks
If you login as mark do process1
else
if you login as Tom do process2

Sorry but that does not answer those two questions.

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You need to take a look at whoami manual.

Code:

case $(whoami) in
     "root")  echo "Do something as user root";;
     "test")  echo "Do something as user test;;
     *) echo "You are not from this planet, please go away";;
esac

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