who is the console user?

who | grep :0 | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 1
Finds the login id of the user that owns the console. I use it to reset my touchpad after resume from suspend in /etc/pm/sleep.d/s99local

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By: mikef5410
2016-06-22 17:33:38
cut grep head who
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