WHOAMI(1) - General Commands Manual #

WHOAMI(1) - General Commands Manual

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)

HISTORY #

The whoami utility first appeared in 2BSD.

OpenBSD 7.5 - January 15, 2012