NAME

       whoami - print effective userid

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

       Report whoami bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  ©  2013  Free  Software  Foundation,  Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL  version  3  or  later
       <http://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

       The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and whoami programs are
       properly installed at your site, the command

              info coreutils 'whoami invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.21                                 March 2016                                          WHOAMI(1)