Re: How to find current user?
Re: How to find current user?
- Subject: Re: How to find current user?
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:14:49 -0700
On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Bernardo Hoehl wrote:
Is this what you want?
set CurrentUser to do shell script "whoami"
set ThePath to "/Users/" & CurrentUser & "/Library/Preferences/"
I would caution against this approach, especially for a lab scenario, as not all $HOME directories are located there, especially if it's a remote home directory (but even certain local accounts - root's $HOME is elsewhere). It will work on a stock OSX, but it won't handle many other scenarios.
I'd use the built-in AppleScript methods or possibly use "do shell script" to interact with niutil, which should be pretty authoritative for this info.
-R
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