Using $USER in scripts

Question

Given a script which sets some arbitrary properties on a dev server, if I wanted to automatically insert the users system name into a path for say log files, how would I go about doing so?

desired output:

/usr/user/logs/log_file

I have tried using whoami, echo whoami, echo $USER, and it fails to give the desired output. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

anishsane · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-27 10:45:32Z

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$USER should work. Like this:

log_file="/usr/$USER/logs/log_file"

however, whoami will work too:

log_file="/usr/$(whoami)/logs/log_file"

edited Aug 27, 2014 at 10:45

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