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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(3,n,1 builtins)

       --version
              output version(1,3,5) information and exit(3,n,1 builtins)

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
       NO  warranty;  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for whoami is maintained as  a  Texinfo  manual.
       If  the  info(1,5,n)  and whoami programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

              info(1,5,n) coreutils whoami

       should give you access(2,5) to the complete manual.



whoami 5.2.1                      March 2004                         WHOAMI(1)