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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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2015 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.