bsd man page for whoami

Query: whoami

OS: bsd

Section: 1

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WHOAMI(1)						      General Commands Manual							 WHOAMI(1)

NAME
whoami - print effective current user id
SYNOPSIS
whoami
DESCRIPTION
Whoami prints who you are. It works even if you are su'd, while `who am i' does not since it uses /var/run/utmp.
FILES
/etc/passwd Name data base
SEE ALSO
who (1) 3rd Berkeley Distribution November 27, 1996 WHOAMI(1)
Related Man Pages
whoami(1b) - opensolaris
login(1) - bsd
wtmp(5) - osx
whoami(1b) - sunos
whoami(1) - opensolaris
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