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

       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  ©  2023  Free  Software  Foundation,  Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL  version  3  or  later
       <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to  the  extent
       permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.4                                   June 2025                                          WHOAMI(1)