WHOAMI(1)
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
HISTORY
The whoami utility first appeared in
2BSD.
OpenBSD 7.8
January 15, 2012
WHOAMI(1)