Answer by Keith Thompson for Environment Variable for Username
As the other answers say, $USER is usually set to the name of the current user account.But at least on my system (Ubuntu 14.04) the $USER environment variable is not set for cron jobs. Instead, you can...
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There might be a caveat if you plan to read the $USER environment variable in a command starting with sudo. Bash variable expansion takes place before executing sudo to switch users, that means the...
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The Linux version environment variable to refer to the current user is USER.To get the output you'd like to see use $USER in your command: echo $USERAnd to use it in another string such as a...
View ArticleAnswer by Rinzwind for Environment Variable for Username
$USERwill change it into your username.Examplerinzwind@schijfwereld:~$ echo $USERrinzwindThere are more...~$ cd /tmp:/tmp$ echo $HOME/home/rinzwind:/tmp$ echo $PWD/tmp$ echo $HOSTNAMEschijfwereldTo...
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What is the Linux equivalent of %username%?I need to run a script on multiple Linux boxes every few days. I made a .sh file, and it works fine. The script deletes some files at a certain path. Problem...
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