Answer by Eric James Deiter for Using chown $USER:$USER inside bash script
When I calling my script with sudo it would set $USER to root. $ sudo ./myscript.sh I tried the chown ${USER:=$(/usr/bin/id -run)}:$USER /var/www/$sitename but it would still return root. I found if I...
View ArticleAnswer by Andreas Bartels for Using chown $USER:$USER inside bash script
There is only a tiny fault I think. sudo opens a new shell for executing the command and after sudo the user is root. So maybe you should use something like this: MYUSER=$USER sudo chown...
View ArticleAnswer by marcosjsramos for Using chown $USER:$USER inside bash script
In order to simplify the problem and since your are getting the variable sitename, why don't you read a username variable? With that you'd make sure that the script execution is not dependent on the...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim Cutts for Using chown $USER:$USER inside bash script
If, for some reason, $USER is not set, you can use the id command to obtain the identity of the real user. So the first time you use the $USER variable, you can use the shell expansion to supply a...
View ArticleUsing chown $USER:$USER inside bash script
In a small bash script I'm running I am attempting to chown a new directory that is created. I've added: sudo chown $USER:$USER /var/www/$sitename sudo chmod 775 /var/www/$sitename after the line...
View ArticleAnswer by Hogcryat for Using chown $USER:$USER inside bash script
The accepted answer by @tim-cutts would not work if you call the script itself with sudo:sudo ./myscript.shA more simple version of this answer would be to use logname:curuser=$(logname)chown...
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