NAME¶

whoami - print effective user name

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/>

SEE ALSO¶

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'

Packaged by Debian (9.7-3)
Copyright © 2025 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.