How can i use the whoami in a file path to copy a file.

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#1

I want to move a file to an employee folder on a server. I can get the name of the folder on the server because it corresponds to the user name of the computer. so if I do whoami in a shell script I get the user name and the name of their folder. How can I add the response to the whoami to the server path?

ditto ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Office\ 2004\ Identities/Main\ Identity/Database /Volumes/EMPLOYEE_BACKUP/whoami info here/Database

Thanks:)

#2

You might be able to replace “whoami info here” with this:

`whoami`

That will run the whoami command, and put its result in that place.

#3

I almost have it working. I have added an if statement to see if the server is mounted. I get and error if the server is mounted that says The variable result is not defined. If the server is not mounted everthing works great.

set iVolume to "EMPLOYEE_BACKUP"

if (list disks) does not contain iVolume then tell application "System Events" to get name of current user
set iUser to result
display dialog "Enter Network Password" default answer "" with hidden answer
set iPass to the text returned of the result
set iServer to "afp://myserver/EMPLOYEE_BACKUP"
mount volume iServer as user name iUser with password iPass

do shell script "/Library/Scripts/my_Scripts/backup_database.sh"


if (list disks) contains iVolume then
	
	do shell script "/Library/Scripts/my_Scripts/backup_database.sh"
	
end if
#4

Try something like this:

set iVolume to "EMPLOYEE_BACKUP"

if (list disks) does not contain iVolume then
	tell application "System Events" to set iUser to name of current user
	
	display dialog "Enter Network Password" default answer "" with hidden answer
	set iPass to the text returned of the result
	set iServer to "afp://myserver/EMPLOYEE_BACKUP"
	mount volume iServer as user name iUser with password iPass
end if

do shell script "/Library/Scripts/my_Scripts/backup_database.sh"