Manual: gnuwhoami
WHOAMI(1) User Commands WHOAMI(1)
NAME
whoami - print effective user name
SYNOPSIS
whoami [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik.
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO
Full documentation
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'
Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
GNU coreutils 9.7 January 2026 WHOAMI(1)