whoami and bash

[Gordon Messmer]

Francois wrote:
> 
>> Or, echo "blabla `whoami` blabla".
> 
> It doesn't work too.
> 
>> Or, echo "blabla $(whoami) blabla"
> this one works fine. That's the solution I wanted. Thanks. Francois

Those two are examples are the same.  If the first didn't work, you 
probably used single quote characters (') instead of backticks (`).  The 
backtick should be on the same key as the tilde (~).