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.