WHOAMI(1)			 User Commands			     WHOAMI(1)



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

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

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C) 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 8.22		 February 2016			     WHOAMI(1)