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

       Report whoami bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2009 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

       The full documentation for whoami is maintained as  a  Texinfo  manual.
       If  the  info  and whoami programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

              info coreutils 'whoami invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.4                October 2009                        WHOAMI(1)