## 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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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

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