WHOAMI(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHOAMI(1)NAME
whoami — display effective user id
SYNOPSIS
whoami
DESCRIPTION
The whoami utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equiv‐
alent to “id -un”. The command “id -p” is suggested for normal interac‐
tive use.
The whoami utility displays your effective user ID as a name.
The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSOid(1)BSD June 6, 1993 BSD