whoami
print effective userid
Synopsis
whoami
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examples
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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
copyright
Copyright © 2012 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.
reporting bugs
Report whoami bugs to bug-coreutils[:at:]gnu[:dot:]org
GNU coreutils home page:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software:
<http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report whoami translation bugs to
<http://translationproject.org/team/>
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.
author
Written by
Richard Mlynarik.