Hi all,
I am writing a quick bash backup script and it can be run
by any user. At the end of the script I want it to
email the user with a reminder to copy the tar files
it created to another machine.
So what I want is a unix command to tell me the current
user of that script ie who invoked it.
An apropos uid showed there were functions like getuid but
they arent suitable for calling up in a sh script.
Basically it's like this....
#!/bin/sh
# Synopsis, author,date into ect stuff..
list_of_users="archive mikel lindax"
for i in $list_of_users; do
filename=$i.$now
echo "Backing up /usr/people/$i/Structures/..."
echo "tar cvf $filename.tar /usr/people/$i/Structures/* 2> $filename.log"
echo "gzip $filename.tar"
echo "Backup file saved as $filename.tar.gz"
echo ""
done
then *something* like this...
exec "mail -s "Reminder to move backups." $user" etc
and include a few lines of text in the mail message.
ie the filenames to move.
Mike
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University of Technology, Sydney
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