How can I get the current user's username in Bash?
Solution 1:
On the command line, enter
whoami
or
echo "$USER"
To save these values to a variable, do
myvariable=$(whoami)
or
myvariable=$USER
Of course, you don't need to make a variable since that is what the $USER variable is for.
Solution 2:
An alternative to whoami is id -u -n.
id -u will return the user id (e.g. 0 for root).