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WHOAMI(1) User Commands WHOAMI(1)

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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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 at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'
February 2017 GNU coreutils 8.26