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)
Ladies, Gents,
I am fairly new to this game but I am having trouble making the above command work.
If I login as root and go to terminal session "whoami" works.
If I login as admin open a terminal session and "su root" the "whoami" command comes up with " Not recognised".
Any ideas?
... (1 Reply)
Hello
I have a question about shell programming
So I recently found out that someone is secretly accessing my files due to my mistake. Of course, now, I changed all the permission so people cannot access my file(s) anymore.
However, I am a little bit mad about the fact and I'd like to find that... (1 Reply)
how can I use whoami on a script for ordinary user? it always says command not found. pls help
#!/bin/ksh
W='whoami'
DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
echo " $DATE- by $W"
result
2011-03-29 09:46:16 - by
you wil noticed the by is blank...pls help..but in root, it works (1 Reply)
I was following a tutorial on installing Homebrew and I changed the ownership of /usr/local/ to me. Now McAfee Security won't start This is the exact line I typed:
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
Then I tried to fix it with:
sudo chown -R root /usr/local
I still can't start mcafee. It say... (7 Replies)
// AIX 6.1 TL8
Please advise on how to capture whoami log or the user and time info into a log file (i.e. /tmp/cmdcapture.log) whenever users are executing a certain command(s) so that I can keep the single log history (for all users) of who did what. The command(s) I need to monitor are a... (3 Replies)