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whoamidisplay 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.

id(1)

The whoami utility first appeared in 2BSD.

January 15, 2012 OpenBSD-5.8