How to check if running as root in a bash script

Question

I\'m writing a script that requires root level permissions, and I want to make it so that if the script is not run as root, it simply echoes \"Please run as root.\" and exit

Answer 1

There is a simple check for a user being root.

The [[ stuff ]] syntax is the standard way of running a check in bash.

error() {
  printf '\E[31m'; echo "$@"; printf '\E[0m'
}

if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
    error "Do not run this as the root user"
    exit 1
fi

This also assumes that you want to exit with a 1 if you fail. The error function is some flair that sets output text to red (not needed, but pretty classy if you ask me).