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Old 03-20-2007
Grabing the username
Hi,
Is there a way to grab the username who is running the shell script. I am trying to do is:

$ who am i
Peterd123 pts/5 Mar 20 09:30 (H0021563.xyz.com)

Is there a way to display only the user name above, which is"Peterd123".

Thanks
Raj
rkumar28
# 2  
Old 03-20-2007
Code:
echo ${USER}
who am i | nawk '{print $1}'

# 3  
Old 03-20-2007
Thanks a bunch....it worked for me...
rkumar28
# 4  
Old 03-21-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
echo ${USER}
who am i | nawk '{print $1}'

i would go for just,

Code:
whoami

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