Access The Current User Email and Name from the Bash in Mac OS X

Question

Is it possible to access the current user's name and email address from the command line in OS X? If so, how would it be done?

Answer 1

There's an open-source CLI app to interact with Contacts (previously known as Address Book).

https://github.com/dhess/contacts

Email of Current User

contacts -Hm -f '%e'

Name of Current User

contacts -Hm -f '%n'