Linux manual pages Section 1: General Commands  

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

Report whoami bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.org

GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

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

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.

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 permitted by law.