| WHOAMI(1) | General Commands Manual | WHOAMI(1) |
whoami — display
effective user ID
whoami |
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.
The whoami utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The whoami utility first appeared in
2BSD.
| January 15, 2012 | OpenBSD-current |