NAME
whoami —
display effective user
id
SYNOPSIS
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)