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

AUTHOR

Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <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 at: <www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) whoami invocationaq