whoami - Man Page
print effective user name
Examples (TL;DR)
- Display currently logged username:
whoami
- Display the username after a change in the user ID:
sudo whoami
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
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Copyright
Copyright © 2024 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'
Referenced By
September 2024 GNU coreutils 9.5