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whoami

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print effective user name

User commands2 optionscoreutils 9.7-3
whoami [OPTION]...

Options

2
--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

DESCRIPTION

Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un.

display this help and exit
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS

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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)
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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.