Console User

April 2, 2013 by David

This is a simple snippet to determine the short name of the user currently logged into the console of an OSX machine.

#/bin/bash

/usr/bin/who | /usr/bin/head -1 | /usr/bin/awk '{if ($2 != "console") {print "no user"} else { print $1 }}'

#/bin/bash

/usr/bin/who | /usr/bin/head -1 | /usr/bin/awk '{if ($2 != "console") {print "no user"} else { print $1 }}'

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