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.

The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

id(1)