Re: whoami and bash

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:04:35PM +0200, Francois wrote:
> Hello,
> I would to be able to cancel a script I've written if I run it as root.
> I know there is a command "whoami" to know who is running the script, but 
> first, I would like the script :
> "Be careful, you are running it as root"
> "please, switch to user xxxx, and rerun it.
> "Do you want to abort that script, or else, to run it
> " as root".
> you can see the idea;
> I've tried with :
> echo "blablalaalaal"
> whoami
> echo "blbalalblbala"

echo -n "blabla"
whoami

The -n tells echo not to add a trailing new-line.

> Another try I made was :
> whoami = whoami
> echo "blabalababama &whoami balbabababamabab"

That would be:
whoami=`whoami`
echo "blabla $whoami blabla"

Or, echo "blabla `whoami` blabla".

Or, echo "blabla $(whoami) blabla"

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lfr
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