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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

       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>  Report  whoami  translation  bugs  to
       <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2013  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 per‐
       mitted 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 8.22                                  November 2016                                           WHOAMI(1)