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.