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deansheather opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #1818
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$USER environment variable is not set in terminal sessions #1799

deansheather opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #1818
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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a linux workspace
  2. Open a terminal in the web terminal or the CLI
  3. echo $USER
  4. Notice that nothing is printed

Expected

The current user's username (e.g. coder) should be printed

Actual

Nothing is printed

Workaround

Users can use $(whoami) in scripts instead of $USER

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feat: inject USER into shells coder/coder
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