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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.

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SEE ALSO

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

Packaged by Debian (9.7-3) Copyright © 2025 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.