WHOAMI(1) General Commands Manual WHOAMI(1)
NAME
whoamidisplay effective user id
SYNOPSIS
whoami
DESCRIPTION
The whoami utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equivalent to “id -un”. The command “id -p” is suggested for normal interactive use.
 
The whoami utility displays your effective user ID as a name.
 
The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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