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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 AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 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
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 WHOAMI(1)

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PRINTENV(1)							   User Commands						       PRINTENV(1)

NAME
printenv - print all or part of environment SYNOPSIS
printenv [OPTION]... [VARIABLE]... DESCRIPTION
Print the values of the specified environment VARIABLE(s). If no VARIABLE is specified, print name and value pairs for them all. -0, --null end each output line with NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printenv, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Richard Mlynarik. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report printenv translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 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
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/printenv> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) printenv invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 PRINTENV(1)
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