* This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake said:
> 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.
$LOGNAME and $USER should contain the users name (distro and flavour
dependant - check before you use)
Don't bother with the exec - not needed and you can add some error
checking if you don't exec it.
> mail -s "Reminder to move backups." $USER
Drop me a mail off list if you need any more help.
Greeno
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