freebsd man page for whoami

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 equivalent to ``id -un''.  The command ``id -p'' is suggested for normal
     interactive use.

     The whoami utility displays your effective user ID as a name.

EXIT STATUS
     The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
     id(1)

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