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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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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
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your site, the command info whoami should give you access to the complete manual. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+--------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+--------------------+ |Availability | SUNWgnu-coreutils | +--------------------+--------------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+--------------------+ NOTES
Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org. whoami 6.7 December 2006 WHOAMI(1)
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