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
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2026 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 9.10 March 2026 whoami(1)
coreutils 9.10 - Generated Thu Apr 2 18:48:31 CDT 2026