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

0- Read official GNU Linux documentation, there are many ways to do it correctly.

1- make sure you put the shell signature to avoid errors in interpretation:

 #!/bin/bash

2- this is my script

#!/bin/bash 

if [[ $EUID > 0 ]]; then # we can compare directly with this syntax.
  echo "Please run as root/sudo"
  exit 1
else
  #do your stuff
fi