How to find the username in Bash?

I'm starting out on some Linux bash scripting and I'm trying to get the username so I can cd to that user's Desktop:

cd /home/$(user I'm currently using)/Desktop

The code should be similar to the above to my understanding. What kind of terminal command would return just the name of the user I'm using?

4 Answers

The command you were looking for is whoami.

You're probably just looking for cd ~/Desktop.

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[max@localhost ~]$ echo $USER

max

This will print the name of the user who currently logged in the terminal

[max@localhost ~]$ su -

Password:

[root@localhost ~]# echo $USER

root

who is the command for you which is a shortform for whoami