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WHOAMI(1) User Commands WHOAMI(1)

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.

display this help and exit
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2022 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.

SEE ALSO

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

September 2022 GNU coreutils 9.1