WHOAMI(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHOAMI(1)
NAME
whoami — display 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.
EXIT STATUS
The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
id(1)
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD
Created: Tuesday February 27, 2018