Aggggghhhhhh!!!! Thanks guys I've been using this test in several of my 
scripts and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working this time. I typed 
the wrong ' after whoami  but typed it correct in my letter to the list. 
Didn't even notice all the time I was looking at my code. And Kevin 
thanks I think I'll be checking $UID = 0 from now on.

Carl P.

Kevin Buettner wrote:

>On Sep 6,  5:07pm, Carl Parrish wrote:
>
>>Okay I'm writting a script that tests for root status. like so
>>
>>test `whoami` = 'root' || echo "You must be root to execute the commands."
>>
>>it never seems to be able to pass the test. From the command line I can run whoami and get back root but it never works in the script. 
>>Any idea what I'm doing wrong? 
>>
>
>I don't think you're doing anything wrong; it works for me...
>
>However, even if you do get the above working, you might want to
>instead consider checking against either $UID or $EUID...
>
>Kevin
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