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 --version output version information and exit AUTHOR Written by Richard Mlynarik. REPORTING BUGS Report whoami bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'whoami invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.2 March 2009 WHOAMI(1)