WHOAMI
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2021
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NAME
whoami - print effective userid
SYNOPSIS
whoami
[
,OPTION/]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID.
Same as id -un.
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <
https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'