Gnu/coreutils/whoami-invocation
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20.3 whoami
: Print effective user ID
whoami
prints the user name associated with the current
effective user ID. It is equivalent to the command ‘id -un
’.
The only options are --help
and --version
. See Common options.
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates failure.